Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROWIf a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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To think is to differ.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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