The trouble with law is lawyers.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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