Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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