Its rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just dont operate that way. – Jim Garrison
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know hes guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? – Jim Garrison
Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it. – Jim Garrison
Im afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. – Jim Garrison
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877