There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROWThe audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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