The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle.
If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead. [Footnote:] While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Even Voltaire's father could not make a lawyer out of a genius. To be a good lawyer, one must have a mind and a disposition to venerate the past; a respect for precedents; a belief in the wisdom and the sanctity of the dead. Voltaire had genius, imagination, feeling, and poetry, and these gifts always have been, and always will be, incompatible with the practice of law.
You are a most excellent lawyer, for a dead man.
Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason — the lawyers didn't make it.
Do you have any papers for Will Barrent?”
None,” the lawyer said. His case is in different hands. I’m afraid it might not be completely processed until after the Games are over.”
But I’ll probably be dead then,” Barrent said.
That, I can assure you, won’t stop the papers from being properly served,” the fat lawyer said proudly. Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.”
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.