The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROWChloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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To think is to differ.
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