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Clarence Darrow quotes, quotations, sayings

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
Clarence Darrow
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Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.
John Keats
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?;"Clarence Darrow
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
Clarence Darrow - remarking during the 1932 presidential campaign.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
Clarence Darrow
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel Johnson
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
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You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow
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You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
Clarence Darrow
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He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]
Clarence Darrow
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
Charles Lamb
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There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow
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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Clarence Darrow
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow
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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
Clarence Seward Darrow
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I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
Clarence Darrow
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There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
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Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good; "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried: He drank the poison, and his spirit died.
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow
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History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
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He talked with more claret than clarity.
Susan Ertz
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
Clarence Darrow
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
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With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Clarence Darrow
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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
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To think is to differ.
Clarence Darrow
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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.
Clarence Darrow
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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
Clarence Darrow
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
Clarence Darrow
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
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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.
Clarence Darrow
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Clarence Darrow
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The law is a horrible business.
Clarence Darrow
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There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.
Coming to America
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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
Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
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