Legal Systems Very Different From Ours Quotes

“That illustrates my rule of thumb for reading history: View with suspicion any anecdote that makes a good enough story to have survived on its literary merits.”
― David D. Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different from Ours

“In eighteenth-century England a system of professional police and prosecutors, government paid and appointed, was viewed as potentially tyrannical—worse still, French.”
― David D. Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different from Ours