Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
CLARENCE DARROWIn life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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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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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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