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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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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 purpose of life is to live it.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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 truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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