None meet life honestly and few heroically.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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 first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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