<P> `` Let 's kill all the lawyers '' is a line from William Shakespeare 's Henry VI , Part 2 , Act IV , Scene 2 . The full quote is `` The first thing we do , let 's kill all the lawyers '' . It is among Shakespeare 's most famous lines , as well as one of his most controversial , and has been used as the title of movies and books . Shakespeare may be making a joke when character `` Dick The Butcher '' suggests one of the ways the band of pretenders to the throne can improve the country is to kill all the lawyers . Dick is a rough character , a killer as evil as his name implies , like the other henchmen , and this is his rough solution to his perceived societal problem . There is some disagreement with the interpretation that one of Shakespeare 's sympathetic characters would make a joke suggesting that killing lawyers would make the world better . The Florida Bar Association contends the quote was a lawyer joke . </P>
<P> `` Let 's kill all the lawyers '' is a line from William Shakespeare 's Henry VI , Part 2 , Act IV , Scene 2 . The full quote is `` The first thing we do , let 's kill all the lawyers '' . It is among Shakespeare 's most famous lines , as well as one of his most controversial , and has been used as the title of movies and books . Shakespeare may be making a joke when character `` Dick The Butcher '' suggests one of the ways the band of pretenders to the throne can improve the country is to kill all the lawyers . Dick is a rough character , a killer as evil as his name implies , like the other henchmen , and this is his rough solution to his perceived societal problem . There is some disagreement with the interpretation that one of Shakespeare 's sympathetic characters would make a joke suggesting that killing lawyers would make the world better . The Florida Bar Association contends the quote was a lawyer joke . </P>
who said let 's kill all the lawyers
who said let 's kill all the lawyers
Dick The Butcher
Dick The Butcher