Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
CLARENCE DARROWChase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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In 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.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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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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