Success Quote by Robert Frost

A “successful lawsuit” that’s “worn by a policeman” is Frost doing what he often does best: smuggling a hard, skeptical idea into plainspoken Americana. The line snaps because it yokes two worlds that claim legitimacy in different languages. A lawsuit is supposed to be argued, reasoned, adjudicated. A policeman’s uniform is authority without argument, the visible promise that force sits behind the rules. By calling the uniform the truly “successful” lawsuit, Frost implies that the law’s persuasive power is less about lofty principles than about enforcement - the quiet coercion everyone pretends not to notice.

The phrasing carries a dry, rural cynicism: “worn” makes the whole thing feel casual, even folksy, as if justice is just another garment. That’s the sting. It’s not a grand denunciation of policing so much as a cold reminder that the courtroom’s abstractions cash out on the street. The “success” of a legal claim is measured not by its moral clarity but by whether it can summon a badge, a baton, a jail cell.

Context matters: Frost wrote in an America that liked to imagine itself governed by common sense and fair play, even as the modern state was expanding its machinery of control. He’s puncturing the civic bedtime story. Under the genteel talk of rights and due process, order is maintained by people who can put hands on bodies. The subtext isn’t that law is fake; it’s that law is real precisely because it can be made physical.