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.
CLARENCE DARROWI am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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