None meet life honestly and few heroically.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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