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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
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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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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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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