You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
CLARENCE DARROWJust think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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