The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws to any other hands.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

法律的概念涉及主要规则和次要规则的结合。