The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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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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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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