Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
CLARENCE DARROWThose who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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The law is a horrible business.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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