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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.

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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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