The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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