You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROWProbably 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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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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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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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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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