Why We Need Defamation Law

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

Why "Plain English" Won't Work

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is Moral ?

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

Hallow it Selectively

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham

The Meek ...

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Abraham Lincoln

He Said Something Worthwhile !

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Calvin Coolidge

For Witch-hunters

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Albert Camus

Why Law Must Rule

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Andrew Jackson, 1821

For lawyers

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

Why pedantry matters

Authoritarian governments don't like dictionaries. They live by lies and bamboozling abstractions, and cannot afford to have words accurately defined.

Kenneth Clark

Laws : who needs em' ?

Integrity has no need of rules.

Albert Camus