Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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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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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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