Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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