My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROWMost 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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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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