Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROWInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The law is a horrible business.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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To think is to differ.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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