Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROWNever forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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