When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROWSome of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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To think is to differ.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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