Dan Abrams

“say only the truth. It’s been my experience that no man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
― Dan Abrams, Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency

“He had seen a scribbled copy of a letter Lincoln had written to Justice of the Peace John King, who had been elected only a year earlier and had turned to him for advice on the administration of justice. The letter had been circulated by friends eager to push Lincoln’s political prospects, and Hitt had been so taken with it he’d made a copy for himself. He’d figured it was pretty good advice: “Listen well to all the evidence,” Lincoln had written, “stripping yourself of all prejudice, if any you have, and throwing away if you can all technical law knowledge, hear the lawyers make their arguments as patiently as you can, and after the evidence and the lawyers’ arguments are through, then stop one moment and ask yourself: What is the justice in this case? And let that sense of justice be your decision.”
― Dan Abrams, Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency