“One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns…”
Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist
“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
Variant: Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks."
-Don Vito Corleone
Source: The Godfather
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Context: A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal. But suppose a man steals. Today you go to a representative of that power which has robbed you of the earth, of the right of free contract of the means of exchange, taxes you for everything you eat or wear (the meanest form of robbery), — you go to him for redress from a thief!