I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

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.

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.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

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