We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROWWe are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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