I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROWLaws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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 that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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