Books Quote by Christopher McDevitt

“I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.”

— Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

“A trial was a stupid word, considering that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that…

— James Baldwin

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady to remove…

— Gaelen Foley

“The stupid shall be punished.”

— G. Peter Fleming

“.... does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“It is just like one of those ridiculous paperbacks where some amateur  with no apparent connection to the forces of law and order leaps in…

— Claire Ingrams

“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Such a young trial!”

— Franz Kafka

“God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed…” -Judge…

— John Grisham

“Don't drop your books. You might lose your lesson.”

— Greg Mathis