It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
CLARENCE DARROWMost jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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