History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWAnyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only be free if I am free.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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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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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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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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