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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

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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Lawyer
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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 trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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