The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROWAll men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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