Quote#Politics & Power
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of…
Quote byThomas More · 1478–1535
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Utopia (1516), Ch. 7 : Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages.
English (original)
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause
— Thomas More
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