My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROWMost 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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