I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
CLARENCE DARROWEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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 law is a horrible business.
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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 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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The 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.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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