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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

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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Poor
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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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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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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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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