I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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 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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The law is a horrible business.
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