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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

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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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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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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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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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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