F. Lee Bailey Quotes

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• Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
• I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
• In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
• The memory of the American public is about six weeks.
• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
• I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the…
• The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually…
• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits…
• Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

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