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.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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