Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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