No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
CLARENCE DARROWFor to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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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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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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