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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
Iconoclast
Severest
Possibly
Escape
Criticism

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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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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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 does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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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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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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