I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.

Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.