In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
I think more important than law is the hearts of people.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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