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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
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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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROW

Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
CLARENCE DARROW

Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness

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