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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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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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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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