The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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