Clarence Darrow
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"Clarence Seward Darrow" was an United States/American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killing/thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924). Some of his other notable cases included defending Ossian Sweet, and John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial/Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan (statesman, noted orator, and three-time presidential candidate). Called a "sophisticated country lawyer", he remains notable for his wit, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.

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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

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.

History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.

The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

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.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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 agnosticism means.

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.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

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 knows he can't.