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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

Clarence Darrow

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROW

Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
CLARENCE DARROW

Doubt Doubtful Faith Religious
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROW

Enough Freedom Necessary Order
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROW

Clothes Fit Law People Service
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROW

Civilization Scope Trial
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROW

Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
CLARENCE DARROW

Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Doubt Fear Feeling Myself Wisdom
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROW

Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
CLARENCE DARROW

End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe Document Human Personal

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

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