“Most lawyers are used to trying to win a case on some kind of technical or evidentiary ground. We had to teach them to rethink death cases. Most capital defendants are guilty.”

“This is the most miserable of cases, but we must dispose of it as though it had been presented by actual lawyers.”

“Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.”

“I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.”

“In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.”

“This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case — and my most interesting criminal.”

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”

“These gentlemen have not had much chance — they did not come here to try this case. They came here to try revealed religion. I am here to defend it and they can ask me any question they please.”

“We are fully aware that war is not the only way to defend our values. But if those values are fundamentally endangered, as is the case today, then war is the only way to defend them. Everything that hinders us in our effort to defend ourselves is an injustice. We did not want this war, it was thrust upon us, like all others. Defending one's people is a holy duty”

“Most American men of affairs have learned well the rhetoric of public relations, in some cases even to the point of using it when they are alone, and thus coming to believe it.”