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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
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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Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner

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