I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROWIf you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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To think is to differ.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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 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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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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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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