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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Clarence Darrow

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROW

Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROW

Business Horrible One Liner
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROW

Greatness Idea Monument
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
CLARENCE DARROW

Love Obedience Subject
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROW

Fight Oneself Reason
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROW

Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
CLARENCE DARROW

Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROW

Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROW

Action Crime Thinking
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
CLARENCE DARROW

Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROW

Civilization Scope Trial
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROW

Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROW

Heroes Idol One Liner
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROW

Brain Creation Money Truth

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