Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROWFor to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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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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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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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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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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