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It’s rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don’t operate that way.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.