Satire on Lawyers and Government

From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver explains to his Houyhnhnm master the workings of lawyers, ministers, and government, in passages of biting satirical condemnation of professional corruption.
Part IV, Chapter 5-6

Famous description of lawyers as 'a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white.'

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