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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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