All the extravagance and incompetence of our present government is due, in the main, to lawyers.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.
What is the source? Where can I read the whole thing?
thanks,
lemuel
Mencken died in 1956. Can you imagine what he would think about today’s government?
http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/mencken/megaquotes.html
And you a lawyer……!