History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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