I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWThe only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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To think is to differ.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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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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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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