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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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 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 no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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 man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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