Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.