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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
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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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
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
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
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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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
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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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society

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