Lawyers are natural politicians.

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.

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.

It is but knowledge, putting it into practice, circumspection, fear of God, and sincerity with Him, August and Majestic is He.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.