Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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 purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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 only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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