Douglas William Jerrold Quote

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.


Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.