Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROWInside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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 purpose of life is to live it.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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The law is a horrible business.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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To think is to differ.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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