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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

Clarence Darrow

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
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
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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
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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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

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