My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROWThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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To think is to differ.
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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 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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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