The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROW
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The law is a horrible business.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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 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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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