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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow 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.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow
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Jenny AJenny A Thank you for still being there for yourself. For being strong. For being resilient. Keep going.
Yohan AcostaYohan Acosta There will never be a day, I am not thankful for the fire you brought to my life that still warms me to the bones.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You could have shook my whole world luckily I became aware, and I took a turn.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers Be strong enough to bloom even in the storm.
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