I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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