Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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