Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWNo nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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 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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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