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.
CLARENCE DARROWLiberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate 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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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