I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROWIt’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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