The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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To think is to differ.
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