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 DARROWEugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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