I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROWThe Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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