“Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.”

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The law is a horrible 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.

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.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.

Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

Love and help all the children, all the days of your existence. They need us.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Everything that is not given is lost.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

When we donate, we are all on the same team!

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.