Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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I 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.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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To think is to differ.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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