"All the extravagance and incompetence of our present government is due, in the main, to lawyers. Mr Stephen Franks of Wellington, New Zealand excepted.They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizen has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half."
H.L.Mencken
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
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