There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can only be free if I am free.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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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.
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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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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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