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.
CLARENCE DARROWNever forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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To think is to differ.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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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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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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