Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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To think is to differ.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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