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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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 first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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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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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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