You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Most 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.
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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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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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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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