H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Breathing Space", The Baltimore Evening Sun, 1924
Mr. Mencken was EXACTLY right and nothing has changed!
“” “All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we’d be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.”
—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), “Breathing Space”, The Baltimore Evening Sun, 1924-08-04. Reprinted in A Carnival of Buncombe. -—————————————————————
If H.L. were to come back alive today, he would die of a heart attack very quickly.
144 posted on Monday, April 02, 2012 11:01:44 AM by stephenjohnbanker
On a different thread at almost the same time.....amazing : )