Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROWEugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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The 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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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