Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROWSome of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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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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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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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 am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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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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