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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

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
Beings
Law
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Freedom
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Humans
Institutions
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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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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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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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 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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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