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To think is to differ.
The law is a horrible business.
Lawyers are natural politicians.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
You can only be free if I am free.
The purpose of life is to live it.
Sympathy is the child of imagination
Chase after the truth like all hell.
Different strokes for different folks.
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
People in this world are not often logical.
I am an agnostic as to the question of God.
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.