Philip Howard Quotes
We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.
Howard, Philip K. The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America. Random House, 1994, p. 187.
Fremont had moved into Mexico and attacked. Realizing this, Admiral Sloat, technically Lt. Colonel Fremont’s superior, hoisted his battle flag and supported the action. When he came face to face with Fremont, Sloat wanted to know who had authorized the invasion of and attack upon Mexico? He was shocked at Fremont’s answer. He himself of much higher rank would never have fired upon the Mexicans without the authority of the heads of the government.
Philip K. Howard is an American lawyer and writer. He has written on the effects of modern law and bureaucracy on human behavior and the workings of society. He started Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which advocates simplifying government.
