Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on legalese in legislation.

"I should apologize, perhaps, for the style of this bill. I dislike the verbose and intricate style of the English statutes. You, however, can easily correct this bill to the taste of my brother lawyers by making every other word a "said" or "aforesaid," and saying everything over two or three times, so that nobody but we of the craft can untwist the diction and find out what it means; and that, too, not so plainly but that we may conscientiously divide, one half on each side."