I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROWNever forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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