Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
CLARENCE DARROWEugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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