If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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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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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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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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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