(1) If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. - Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821
(2) I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 85, 1788
There's truths to both of their quotes - Jefferson's in that whenever a bunch of lawyers get together nothing much good ever comes out of it and Hamilton's in that so long as we depend on human works to achieves peace and stability, we will never have it often or well enough to please everyone.
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