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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe God Mom Myself
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Ability Bravery Coward Greatness Life Physical Strength
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROW

Civilization Scope Trial
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
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

God Immortal Man Personal Production
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Death Himself Man Purpose
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Greatness Money Touch
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROW

Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
CLARENCE DARROW

Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
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
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
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
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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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World

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