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.
CLARENCE DARROWEach child should be more intelligent than his parents.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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