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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.

Clarence Darrow

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Freedom Human Institution Law
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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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
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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Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
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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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
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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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Exploration Opportunity Run Simplicity Time
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
The 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.
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Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
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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God Immortal Man Personal Production
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend

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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