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.
CLARENCE DARROWReligion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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