"Here the great art lies,
to discern in what the law
is to be to restraint and punishment,
and in what things
persuasion only is to work."
by:
John Milton
(1608-1674) Poet
Date:
1644
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Uh, the actual quote is: ..., but here the great art lies to discern in what the law is to BID (my caps) restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
 -- TerryBerg, Occidental, CA		 
This "great art" that John Milton speaks of (it seems to me) is an art that needs to be interpreted in a justly humane fashion.I thought of how this quote applies to Supreme Court Justices and how it applies to the police in the apprehension and detention of criminal suspects.I sense the need for American dialogue in these areas as this quote pertains to the aforementioned Nouns.
 -- KS.		 
Congress has created too many laws, to the extent that we are no longer free. The courts no longer follow the law, rather what they feel is best ... but for whom? The Second Amendment states the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, yet there are laws which require permits to purchase, and more. What part of shall not be infringed to they NOT understand?
 -- Joe, Rochester, MI		 
Joe. it's just like the first ammendent on freedom of religion: however, the government gets to decide "what is a religion?"
 -- cal, lewisville, tx		 
The law, though an abstract to corporeal man, is an absolute. Fiscal laws seldom harmonize with political aspirations. Alien potentates definitions (codes, rules, statutes, etc.) seldom match man's inalienable right(s) to life, liberty, property, self protection, expression, or religion. It is a great art, blended with science to discover what the law is. It is the application thereof, that is pure art at restraining, punishing, and in what things persuasion only is to work. The original constitution, know to by contemporary man, has been the greatest outline to which such art may be discovered.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
A good and thoght provoking quote. Thanks editor.
 -- Waffler, Smith		 
That kind of discernment is definitely the gist of justice; this country being so far the only one in this whole wide world indeed capable of reaching it at both the lawmakers' and people's ends, as long as the second Amendment is respected.
 -- Elisabeth, Astoria, NY		 
 
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