The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
CLARENCE DARROWWe’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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To think is to differ.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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