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Lawyers are natural politicians.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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