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 DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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To think is to differ.
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