I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROWWorking people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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