Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.

Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

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

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.