Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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