Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
CLARENCE DARROWMost jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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