When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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