Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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