The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWI have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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 audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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 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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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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