Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROWNo 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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