In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

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

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

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.

The law is a horrible business.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.