No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROWI don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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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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