Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Lloyd Paul Stryker

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Lloyd Paul Stryker was a 20th-century American attorney known as a "flamboyant criminal lawyer" and "perhaps the most celebrated criminal lawyer since Clarence Darrow", best known as chief of defense in the first criminal trial of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1949.

American - Author | 1885 - 1955

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A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

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