The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROWChase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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