In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
CLARENCE DARROWJustice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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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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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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