When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROWCalvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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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 purpose of life is to live it.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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