I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROWSomeday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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 do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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