Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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