I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person – few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.