Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.