Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROWMost jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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All 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.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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