Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWThe only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing 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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