It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
CLARENCE DARROWIf a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch 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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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