F. Lee Bailey Quotes

#1. In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

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#2. I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

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#3. 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 they are not smarter.

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#4. Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

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#5. If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

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#6. Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

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#7. The memory of the American public is about six weeks.

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#8. There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.

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#9. 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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#10. 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 and injunctions, or whatever.

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#11. I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

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#12. Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

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#13. 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 guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

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#14. I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

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#15. Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

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