While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the

It is lawyers who run our civilization for us-our governments, our businesses, our private lives. ...We cannot buy a home or rent an apartment, we cannot get married or try to get divorced, we cannot leave our property to our children without calling on the lawyers to guide us. To guide us, incidentally, through a maze of confusing gestures and formalities that lawyers have created. ...The legal trade, in short, is nothing but a high-class racket.

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

Law is an ass, an idiot.

I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did.