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.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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