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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Clarence Darrow

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
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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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Beginning Believe Myself President
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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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
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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Ability Bravery Coward Greatness Life Physical Strength

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

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