In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROWThe nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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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 a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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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