The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

The law is a horrible business.

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