Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

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

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

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

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.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate