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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Exploration Opportunity Run Simplicity Time
Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
CLARENCE DARROW

Kill Murder Notice Potential Reading Satisfaction
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Doubt Fear Feeling Myself Wisdom
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
CLARENCE DARROW

Forget Jury Lost Win
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROW

Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROW

Himself Lying Need
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
CLARENCE DARROW

Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
CLARENCE DARROW

Black Freckle Man Truth White
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROW

Born Control Myself People Remember
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 DARROW

Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
CLARENCE DARROW

Action Emotion Government Human

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