“We are not animals, we are men. That is the foundation of law - you cannot win. Where are your courts? Your judges? And your juries? Until you bring them forward, I must forbid you my house.”

Morris Carnovsky - Sixtus Andresen

“- Jerome Facher: What's your take?
- Jan Schlichtmann: They'll see the truth.
- Jerome Facher: The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come on, you've been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn't a place to look for the truth.”

Robert Duvall - Jerome Facher
John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“This appears - mind you, I say appears - to be properly drawn. But you shan't have this man. A man isn't a piece of property. Mr. Stone is an American citizen... and an American citizen cannot be forced into the service of a foreign prince.”

Edward Arnold - Daniel Webster

“Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore - correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?”
Jeremy Irons - René Gallimard

“I don't believe in capital punishment. I do believe in the rights of victims. I do believe that they deserve recompense, no matter how significant or insignificant it may be in comparison to the loss suffered.”
Al Pacino - Jack Gramm