[Pilsner]

"A foolish consistentcy is the hobgoblin of a small mind."

I think about that quote everytime I suffer through or see some piece of stupidity by a beaurucrat so devoted to the "rules are rules" mindset that he or she cannot fathom that they are doing something completely unjustifiable.

[ijcr]

"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."