Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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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.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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