Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROWI am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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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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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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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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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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