In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROWI have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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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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