Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

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.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

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

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.