Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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 am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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