I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWReligion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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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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