Sunday, December 13, 2020
We Have Laws Enough
Walter Savage Landor, "Aeschines and Phocion," Imaginary Conversations, Vol. I (London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1891), pp. 162-173 (at 165):
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Phocion. While passions and minds are agitated, the fewer opinions we deliver before them the better. We have laws enough; and we should not accustom men to changes. Though many things might be altered and improved, yet alterations in State-matters, important or unimportant in themselves, are weighty in their complex and their consequences. A little car in motion shakes all the houses of a street; let it stand quiet, and you or I could almost bear it on our foot: it is thus with institutions.
