The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROWThe man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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