The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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.
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