Clergyman's

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.
- F. Lee Bailey

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn’t set up the ground rules.
- F. Lee Bailey

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.
- F. Lee Bailey

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.
- F. Lee Bailey

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
- F. Lee Bailey