Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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