We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
CLARENCE DARROWMen 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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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