The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Our system is not one of justice, but of law

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free

Laws do not persuade because they threaten

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass