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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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