If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very read more

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held read more

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would read more

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard
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For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you read more

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.