In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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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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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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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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