Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROWLaws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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