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^{Fred Rodell, 1947}", "Every legal writer is presumed to be a liar until he proves himself otherwise with a flock of footnotes.

^{Fred Rodell, 1947}", "[I]t is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

^{Fred Rodell, 1947}", "[O]ne of the best way to palm off inferior goods is to wrap them up in a respectable looking package.

^{Fred Rodell, 1947}", "90 per cent of American scholars and at least 99.44 per cent of American legal scholars not only do not know how to write simply; they do not know how to write.

^{Fred Rodell, 1947}", "In TRIBAL TIMES, there were the medicine-men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today there are the lawyers.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power - in the lawyers.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "[L]aw deals almost exclusively with the ordinary facts and occurrences of everyday business and government and living. But it deals with them in a jargon which completely baffles and befoozles the ordinary literate man.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "The Law is the killy-loo bird of the sciences. The killy-loo, of course, was the bird that insisted on flying backward because it didn't care where it was going but was mightily interested in where it had been.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "The Law never admits to itself that there can be anything actually new under the sun.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "The whole Law of Contracts is based on the idea that men in general cannot be trusted to keep their promises, and around this area of mutual mistrust The Law lays down its principles.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "Dealing in words is a dangerous business, and it cannot be too often stressed that what The Law deals in is words.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "[I]t is the legend of The Law that every legal dispute can, and must, be settled by hauling an abstract principle down to earth and pinning it to the dispute in question.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "The last thing any court will ever admit, even when it is being quite practical about what it decides, is that practical considerations have anything to do with the decision.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "The sober truth is that the myriad principles of which The Law is fashioned resemble nothing so much as old saws, dressed up in legal language and paraded as gospel.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "[I]t is generally conceded that the purpose of language, whether written, spoken, or gestured, is to convey ideas from one person to another.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "[M]ost good lawyers go to New York before they die. They go to New York because that is where they can make the most money out of their knack of tossing around legal principles and legal language.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "The answer is to get rid of the lawyers and throw The Law with a capital L out of our system of laws.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "A training in The Law cannot make any man a better judge of justice, and it is all too likely to make him a worse one.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}", "[N]o segment of the English language in use today is so muddy, so confusing, so hard to pin down to its supposed meaning, as the language of The Law. It ranges only from the ambiguous to the completely incomprehensible.

^{Fred Rodell, 1939}" ]; rotateQuotes();