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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.

Clarence Darrow

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
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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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
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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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth

There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.

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