The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life --to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
Source: Apologia, in Harvard Law Review, (Cambridge), Jun 1972.
-- Archibald MacLeish, (May 7 1892-1982), US poet, playwright, teacher, public official; His concern for liberal democracy figured in much of his work, although his most memorable lyrics are of a more private nature.