Let's kill all the lawyers
Quote from William Shakespeare's Henry VI
Let's kill all the lawyers
In English literature, "Let's kill all the lawyers" is a phrase from a line of dialogue spoken by a henchman in the history play Henry VI, Part 2 (1591), by William Shakespeare. Although the truncated form is the usual quotation, the full line of dialogue is: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers", spoken in conversation between the rebel leader Jack Cade and his henchman, Dick the Butcher, in scene 2 of Act IV (4.2.76–77). Popular usage of the phrase "Let's kill all the lawyers" usually is negative: as criticism of how lawyers use the law to maintain the privileges and perquisites of the rich and of the ruling class; as criticism of the bureaucratic nature of legal process and legal procedure; as criticism of the easy corruption and perversion of the rule of law; occasionally as back-hand praise of how lawyers confront the tribalism, partisanship and herd mentality to thwart mob violence in the public sphere of society; and acknowledges that eliminating lawyers as the guardians...
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