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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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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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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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