Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
CLARENCE DARROWOne cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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