My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can only be free if I am free.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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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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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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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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