Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROWIf a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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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 first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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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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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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