We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

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.

Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.