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

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

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

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.