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“Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.”
Source : New York Times, September 20, 1970.
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“The inevitability of gradualness.”
Source : Presidential address to annual conference of Labor Party, 26 June 1923
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“Kentucky wants to occupy some clock”
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“Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.”
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“If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.”
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“I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.”
Source : "The Search for a Soul". Book by Jess Stearn, 1972.
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“The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.”
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“I never killed anyone with my tuba.”
Source : "Bill Barber" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2007. 
