Ours is not only an ancient and honorable profession, but it is a profession essential to the function of free government. If some cataclysm were to wipe out the whole of the legal profession overnight, so to speak, and destroy all lawyers, a new group of lawyers must come into being so that the process of an ordered free society may continue, for the lawyer is the defender of the life, liberty and property of the citizenry even as against the government itself.
Frank Holman, American lawyer, 1886-1967