As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
CLARENCE DARROWMen have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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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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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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