An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROWNone meet life honestly and few heroically.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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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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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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