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

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

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

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

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