I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROWWhenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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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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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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The law is a horrible business.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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