Chase after the truth like all hell.
CLARENCE DARROW
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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