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There Is Something Monstrous In Commands Couched In Invented And Unfamiliar Language; An Alien Master Is The Worst Of All. The Language Of The Law Must Not Be Foreign To The Ears Of Those Who Are To Obey It.

Life Is Made Up Of A Series Of Judgments On Insufficient Data, And If We Waited To Run Down All Our Doubts, It Would Flow Past Us.

Bipartisan Democracy Presupposes The Individual, Whose Welfare Is Identical With That Of The Community In Which He Lives, The Absence Of Coherent Social Classes, A Basic Uniformity Of Interest Throughout.

It Is Still In The Lap Of The Gods Whether A Society Can Succeed Which Is Based On "civil Liberties And Human Rights" Conceived As I Have Tried To Describe Them; But Of One Thing At Least We May Be Sure: The Alternatives That Have So Far Appeared Have Been Immeasurably Worse.

There Is No Surer Way To Misread Any Document Than To Read It Literally.