Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROWEverybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The 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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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