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.
CLARENCE DARROWFor to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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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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