Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROWThe nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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