I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
CLARENCE DARROWLost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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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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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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