Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROWNone meet life honestly and few heroically.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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