Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
CLARENCE DARROWFreedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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