Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.