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

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

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 am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.