Macky Sall Quotes

Law should rule over rulers, and not rulers over the law

The word SECURITY is the first and last chapter of the constitution of France.

A constitution is made of a spirit, institutions, and a practice.

Constitutions are tools for managing risks.

Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution.

We must judge the form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.

When a people have no sufficient value for, and attachment to, a representative constitution, they have next to no chance of retaining it.

States are … instruments at the service of their peoples, and not vice versa.

You do not turn a country with no democratic tradition into a democracy by just having an election. You must also have democratic institutions like the rule of law.

Nations, which in later periods of their history became eminent for civil wisdom and justice, had, perhaps, in a former age, paroxysms of lawless disorder.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

The first duty of a state is to provide for its own conservation. Until that point is secured, it can preserve and protect nothing else. But, if possible, it has greater interest in acting according to strict law than even the subject himself. For if the people see that the law is violated to crush them, they will certainly despise the law. They, or their party, will be easily led to violate it, whenever they can, by all the means in their power. Except in cases of direct war, whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Establishing a stable democracy is a two stage process. First you get rid of the old regime, then you build a durable democratic replacement. Because the first stage is dramatic, many people think the game is over when the dictator is gone. But the second stage is more difficult. There are many examples of broad coalitions coming together to oust dictators but relatively few of them stayed together and agreed on what a new regime should look like.

The desire for a democratic political system does not by itself create the capacity for establishing one.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society. To build a successful country, we need to have rule of law. And rule of law is not just about writing a beautiful constitution or set of laws. It is also about the independence of the judiciary. It’s about institutions. It’s about respect for rights, human rights, social, economic rights, etc.

Our country will be stabilized, with all key establishments in society working in unity with full awareness among Thais of their duties and responsibilities.

America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

We'll continue to build a nation that is trusted by its people.

As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy.

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.