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Good counselors lack no clients.

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

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I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

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Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 4, ch. 5.

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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 4, ch. 5.

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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Thomas More

Utopia

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More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. Leuven: Self-published, 1516, bk. 2.

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More, Thomas. Utopia, edited and translated by Paul Turner. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2.

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A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 15 Aug. 1773.

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Johnson, Samuel and James Boswell. "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Don Corleone

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Quoted in The Godfather (novel), by Mario Puzo

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Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969, ch. 1.

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We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-1 for every 500 Americans, three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyer serves 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

Jimmy Carter

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Carter, Jimmy. Remarks at the 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. 4 May 1978, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client... Is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay... He must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate, it should unhappily be, to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection.

Henry Peter Brougham

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Brougham, Henry Peter. Argument at trial of Queen Caroline for adultery. House of Lords meeting. c. 1820, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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I know you Lawyers can, with ease,
Twist words and meanings as you please;
That language, by your skill made pliant,
Will bend to favour every client.

John Gay

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Gay, John. "The Dog and the Fox." Fables. London: John Knapton, Paul Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738, pt. 2, I. 1.

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Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious.

Legally Blonde

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Legally Blonde. Directed by Robert Luketic, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Marc Platt Productions, 2001.

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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 2

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 2. London: Thomas Millington, 1594, act 4, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.

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Instead of holding a position of independence, between the wealthy and the people, prepared to curb the excesses of either, able lawyers have, to a large extent, allowed themselves to become adjuncts of great corporations and have neglected the obligation to use their powers for the protection of the people. We hear much of the "corporation lawyer," and far too little of the "people's lawyer."

Louis Brandeis

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Brandeis, Louis D. "The Opportunity in the Law." Harvard Ethical Society meeting. 4 May 1905, Phillips Brooks House, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Brandeis, Louis D. "The Opportunity in the Law" Brandeis on Democracy, edited by Philippa Strum. University Press of Kansas, 1994.

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They are plants that will grow in any soil that is cultivated by the hands of others; and, when once they have taken root, they will extinguish every other vegetable that grows around them... The most ignorant, the most bungling member of that profession, will, if placed in the most obscure part of the country, promote litigiousness, and amass more wealth without labor, than the most opulent farmer with all his toils.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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