Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (1989 TV Movie)

Raymond Burr: Perry Mason

Quotes 

• Perry Mason : You're clever and articulate, Mr Wellman. But a jury is a complex organism. Just a group of ordinary people. They haven't studied Aristotelian logic, their individual honesty may come and go, as it does for all of us. When they become a jury, they take on an intelligence that you must never underestimate and an integrity that you must never, NEVER, insult.

• Scott McDonald : [Reading aloud]  Yet it is the creation of a constitutional government, structured by a deep separation of powers, that significantly marks the profound conviction born of experience that human beings occupying positions of leadership must be restrained by...

  Perry Mason : [McDonald stops speaking and Mason continues to recite the text]  ... forces more potent than their own arbitrary discretion.