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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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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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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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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
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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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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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