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.
CLARENCE DARROWI don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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To think is to differ.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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 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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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