“Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. ”

“It’s hard to be prejudiced against someone you love.”

“I only have one prejudice, and that is against those who are prejudiced.”

“Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.”

“No jury in this part of the world's going to say, "We think you're guilty, but not very," on a charge like that. It was either straight acquittal or nothing.”

“If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.”