A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.

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.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

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.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.