Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Laws 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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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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