Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
CLARENCE DARROWEugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great 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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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To think is to differ.
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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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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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