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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.

Clarence Darrow

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
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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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
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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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
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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Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.

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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.

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