The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROWWe’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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To think is to differ.
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