Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROWNever forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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