The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROWOne cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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