Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. - Robert H. Jackson

The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman."

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion — except for the sect that can win political power.

A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser.