In the days of Washington and Jefferson and on through the years till the Civil War, the ambition of able- and many not able- young lawyers was to be a United States senator and to help in a grand way to govern their country. By the time big business took over government, the usual ambition of a bright young lawyer became, as it still is, to get himself retained by some corporation. The desire to serve his country had changed to a desire to sell his soul to a rich corporation....Not all of the first age could be John Randolphs or Websters, or all in the second age draw salaries from Standard Oil, but all got the kind of thing they wanted to get.
- J. Frank Dobie. A Texan in England. (79-80)
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