I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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