“Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.” IfsEnoughCausesCan DoDiscoveryCrossesLawyerEnginesExaminationSkillfulBayonets Book:Evidence in trials at common law Source: Evidence in trials at common law