The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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 am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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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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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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