To think is to differ.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court.
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.