The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROWYou 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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I 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.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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