None meet life honestly and few heroically.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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