Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROWThe law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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To think is to differ.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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