There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
CLARENCE DARROWInside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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 and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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