I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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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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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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The law is a horrible business.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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