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Top 15 Floyd Abrams Quotes (2025 Update)

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – that is probably the most important case.”

1. “I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – that is probably the most important case.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.”

2. “I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I really believe that a lawyer – no matter how good – if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.”

3. “I really believe that a lawyer – no matter how good – if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public’s right to know.”

4. “It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public’s right to know.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don’t think there’s any doubt but that people won’t talk. And, therefore, the public won’t learn.”

5. “If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don’t think there’s any doubt but that people won’t talk. And, therefore, the public won’t learn.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “It’s not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.”

6. “It’s not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.”

7. “I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.”

8. “It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn’t really have enough of that.”

9. “I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn’t really have enough of that.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.”

10. “I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.”

11. “I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.”

12. “I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.”

13. “The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.”

14. “So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “The government understands – every government, every administration, both parties, understands – that that power, they just don’t have.”

15. “The government understands – every government, every administration, both parties, understands – that that power, they just don’t have.”

— Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams Quote: “I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.”

16. “I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.”

— Floyd Abrams

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