To think is to differ.
CLARENCE DARROWIn life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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