You can only be free if I am free.
CLARENCE DARROWWe know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The law is a horrible business.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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 only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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