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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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