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.
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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The law is a horrible business.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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To think is to differ.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must 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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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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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