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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

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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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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