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 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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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