An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
CLARENCE DARROWAs long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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