When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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