You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROWNever forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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The law is a horrible business.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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