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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Clarence Darrow
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Clarence Darrow
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
Clarence Darrow
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Clarence Darrow
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
Clarence Darrow
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.
Clarence Darrow
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
Clarence Darrow
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
Clarence Darrow
There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
Clarence Darrow
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
Clarence Darrow
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
Clarence Darrow
The purpose of life is to live it.
Clarence Darrow
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Clarence Darrow
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
