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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Clarence Darrow

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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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
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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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Life Live Purpose Woman
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
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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God Immortal Man Personal Production
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
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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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong

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