You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROWFreedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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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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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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