Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
CLARENCE DARROWI never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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’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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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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