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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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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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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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