Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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To think is to differ.
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