We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four 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 lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.

But I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effo…

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Well, law is a bit like a printing press -- it's kind of neutral, you can make it do anything. I mean, what lawyers are taught in law school is chicanery: how …

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. (299)

The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.