Roscoe Pound

“Legal history is the record of a continually wider recognizing and satisfying of human wants or claims or desires through social control.”

“The life of the law is in its enforcement.”

“I am skeptical as to the possibility of an absolute judgment.”

“Law is the experience of reason, the reason of experience.”

“The professional spirit is the spirit of public service.”

“The real problem is to discover the best means of directing and controlling the force of politically organized society.”

“The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.”

“Law is social control through the systematic application of the force of politically organized society.”

“In civilized society men must be able to assume that others will commit no intentional aggressions upon them.”

“Law is not a body of rules, but a method and a process of adjustment.”