Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
CLARENCE DARROWWe’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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