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.
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.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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 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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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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The 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.
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