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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

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
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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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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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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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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