The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWMost jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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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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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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 am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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