Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
CLARENCE DARROWIn 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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