A
country survives its legislation. That truth should
not comfort the conservative nor depress the
radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge
its scope and increase its audacity, can try big
experiments without trembling too much over the
result. This nation could enter upon the most
radical experiments and could afford to fail in
them.
-- Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American
Journalist
A fox
may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and
pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your
wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods
and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest,
pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir,
if lawyer's hand is fee d, Sir, he steals your whole
estate.
-- John Gay
1688-1732, British
Playwright, Poet
A good
lawyer is a bad neighbor.
-- French Proverb
Sayings of French
Origin
A
judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American
Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
