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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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To think is to differ.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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