Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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 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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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 truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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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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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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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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