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 DARROWNever forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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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.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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