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.
CLARENCE DARROWIf 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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