I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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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The law is a horrible business.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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It 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.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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