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Prosecutor

character from Disney's Wind in the Willows (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)

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Notable quotes

“She had once looked up the term ‘lawyer’ and found it was someone who helped you fight laws.”
— Gregory Benford, Aspects (2015) in Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan, and published by Solaris , e-book edition
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
— Robert Frost, quoted in Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost (1961) by Lawrence Thompson.
“The goddess Peri became so jealous that she laid a curse on my mother, who turned into a lawyer.”
— John Kessel, Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance (2009) in Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (eds.) The New Space Opera 2 (mass market paperback edition, ), p. 76
“Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?”
— Dan Quayle, address to the American Bar Association, quoted in
“Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?”
— Anthony Trollope, Miss Mackenzie (1865), ch. 17 (Project Gutenburg e-text).
“When there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.”
— Lin Yutang, Between Tears and Laughter (1943), p. 66

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