No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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