Atticus Finch

"All men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe."

"There's no such thing as an understandable motive."

"Maybe the less said about that the better."

"These are times that try men's souls."

"You are too young to understand these things."

"Confidence is something like a telephone; you must know who you are talking to."

"I wanted to show you what real courage is, instead of getting the idea."

"The truth is I'm scared to death I'm going to let you down."

"That boy is your company and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him."

"I simply want to tell you all that I'm mighty glad to live here."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we were born doesn't mean we can keep being licked."

"The question is whether we are to have a say in the matter."

"When you grow up, you'll see that white men cheat black men every day."

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man."

"We are indeed bound by law and custom, but we can choose our conscience."

"I wanted to simply tell you all what I believe in my heart."

"There is a dignity in the act of bearing witness."

"Your father's not a run-of-the-mill man, your father's a man of principles."

"But there is one way in which all men are truly equal."

"I wanted to show you what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that it is a man with a gun in his hand."

"The truth is that we will always have prejudice with us."

"I'm simply defending the rights of every individual."

"Maybe the lawyers are the ones who make the laws, but the people are the ones who live with them."

"There is something else to be said about this case."

"The simple fact of the matter is that we are all equals in the eyes of God."

"I want you to understand what courage really is."

"The truth seems to be that we don't know ourselves as well as we think we do."

"What is courage but knowing that you are going to be beaten and starting anyway."

"I am simply telling you what I believe to be the truth."

"The measure of a man is not his looks, his clothes, or the color of his skin."