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 DARROWIn order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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