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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.

Clarence Darrow

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
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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Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Life Live Purpose Woman
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
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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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong

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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