The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
CLARENCE DARROWNone meet life honestly and few heroically.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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To think is to differ.
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The law is a horrible business.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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