To quote Tom Swift (from Gulliver's Travels): Judges are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their

To quote Tom Swift (from Gulliver's Travels): Judges are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.