A line from William Shakespeare's play Henry VI spoken by the character Dick the Butcher, found in Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2: "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 the character suggests one of the ways the band of pretenders to the throne can improve the country is to kill all the lawyers. 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.
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