The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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To think is to differ.
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