To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.