The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROWOne cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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