Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
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.
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
You can only be free if I am free.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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.
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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.