As you say, Jean Louise, there’s only one thing higher than the Court in this country, and that’s the Constitution.

Real life, my movie don’t come with actors.

One thing I hate is a liar.

I know the consequences of my actions.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

I just don’t like my world disturbed without some warning.

I despise you and everything you stand for.

I learned nothing from you except how to be suspicious. I didn’t know what hate was until I lived among you and saw you hating every day.

The only remedy for this is not to let it beat you.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.

Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard.

Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I can remember. I want to keep it that way.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.

You children made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.