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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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 trouble with law is lawyers.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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