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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
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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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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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 difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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