The law is a horrible business.
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.
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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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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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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.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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To think is to differ.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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.
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