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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Clarence Darrow

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
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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Death Emotion Greatness Man Reading Satisfaction Strong
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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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
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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End Human Important Method Place Society
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
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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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
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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Hell Myself Suffering Understand
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
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.
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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

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