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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Clarence Darrow

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
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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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
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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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
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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Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
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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God Immortal Man Personal Production

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

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