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

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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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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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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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.
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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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