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.
CLARENCE DARROWMost 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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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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.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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