Fred Rodell

It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;…

— Fred Rodell

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

— Fred Rodell

The Lawyers' trade is a trade built entirely on words. And so long as the lawyers carefully keep to themselves the key…

— Fred Rodell

Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once…

— Fred Rodell

In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For…

— Fred Rodell

While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too…

— Fred Rodell

Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them

— Fred Rodell

Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price…

— Fred Rodell

It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,…

— Fred Rodell

All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned.…

— Fred Rodell

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

— Fred Rodell

The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be…

— Fred Rodell