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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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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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