No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROWThe trouble with law is lawyers.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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 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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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To think is to differ.
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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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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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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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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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