I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.

- Alan Dershowitz

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

- Alan Dershowitz

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

- Alan Dershowitz

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

- Alan Dershowitz

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

- Alan Dershowitz

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

- Alan Dershowitz

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much o…

- Alan Dershowitz

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

- Alan Dershowitz

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

- Alan Dershowitz