No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

The law is an opinion with a gun.