I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROWFor to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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