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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Beguile
Exacting
Mistress
Jealous
Liberty
Brain
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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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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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 man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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 purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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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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