"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished." ― Jeremy Bentham Topic(s): Legal More From Jeremy Bentham "No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion." "The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law." "The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." More In Legal "The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."― Henry Miller "The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer."― Christopher Darden "Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells."― Thomas Frank