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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Criticism
Iconoclast
Severest
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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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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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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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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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