The legal process, because of its unbridled growth, has become a cancer which
threatens the vitality of our forms of capitalism and democracy.
-Lawrence Silberman, U.S. Attorney General
... the harsh truth is that... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes
of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before
contemplated.
- Chief Justice of the United States Warren Burger
The legal trade is nothing but a high class racket.
- Professor Fred Rodell
All sorts of substitute for wisdom are used by the world. When the court doesn't
know, they use precedent. The court that made the precedent guessed at it. Yesterday's
guess, grown gray and wearing a big wig becomes today's justice.
-Dr. Frank Crane
A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and
keeps it for himself.
-Lord Brougham
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the
hour.
-Thomas Jefferson
He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil
smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Able.
-Coleridge
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
-Jermy Bentham
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
-Shakespeare, King Henry VI
The virtuous need but few laws; for it is not the law which determines their actions,
but their actions which determine the law.
-Theophrastus
... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct
and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in
court houses all over this country every day. ...these incompetents have a seeming
unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession.
- Chief Justice of the United States Warren Burger
Most lawyers are as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
-Grampa Province