Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROWThere are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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