Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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 am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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To think is to differ.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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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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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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