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.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.