The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROWAncestors 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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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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