I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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 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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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