About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.