The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROWNo nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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