The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Things are never as bad as they seem.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of – oh, of your father.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.