The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.