It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

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.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

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.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

As long as your name is NOT Jesus, I CAN live without you

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?