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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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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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 men, than any other association of men.
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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 most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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 man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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