I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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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 ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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