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.
CLARENCE DARROWNothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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