The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWIt 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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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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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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