In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
CLARENCE DARROWJust think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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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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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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 truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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