Quote#Homeland
Foreign observers of English manners, such for example as Voltaire,…
Quote byA. V. Dicey · 1835–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885; 8th ed. 1915), p. 180.
English (original)
Foreign observers of English manners, such for example as Voltaire, De Lolme, Tocqueville, or Gneist, have been far more struck than have Englishmen themselves with the fact that England is a country governed, as is scarcely any other part of Europe, under the rule of law.
— A. V. Dicey
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