The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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 do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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