The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROWCalvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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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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