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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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