The trouble with law is lawyers.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is to live it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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 a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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