I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROWChloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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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 had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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