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.
CLARENCE DARROWIt 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.
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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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