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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Clarence Darrow

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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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Men 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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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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