I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

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.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

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

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.