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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

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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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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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 first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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 truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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