We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society where everyone w…

- Philip K. Howard

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…

- Philip K. Howard

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their r…

- Philip K. Howard

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate …

- Philip K. Howard

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

- Philip K. Howard