Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROWEducation was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Those 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.
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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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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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In 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.
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