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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Clarence Darrow

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROW

Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
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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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
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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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
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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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

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