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

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

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

- 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