No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROWEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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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.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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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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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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