The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
CLARENCE DARROWEugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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 trouble with law is lawyers.
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To think is to differ.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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