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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

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
Law
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Anarchy
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People
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Laws
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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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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