No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.