All along the pathway of human progress, the courts of justice have been the sure criteria by which to judge of the intelligence and virtue of our race.
Adlai Stevenson
The Public Record
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The great and real pacifier of the world was the lawyer.
His parchment took the place of the battle-field.
The flow of his ink checked the flow of blood.
He impressed on individuals and on communities that which he is now endeavoring to impress on nations, that there are many controversies that it were better to lose by arbitration than to win by war and bloodshed.
It is all-important, never more so than now, that the people should magnify the law.
Whatever lessens respect for its authority bodes evil and only evil to the State.
In many localities a spirit of lawlessness has asserted itself in its most hideous form.
The rule of the mob has at times usurped that of the law.
Outrages have been perpetrated in the name of summary justice, appalling to all thoughtful men.
It need hardly be said that all this is in total disregard of individual rights, and utterly subversive of all lawful authority.
The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.