The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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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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