History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWNever forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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