True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
CLARENCE DARROWI never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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