Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROWThe only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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