The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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 don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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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 man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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