Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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Probably 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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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