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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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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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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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