Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROWMen have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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