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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

Clarence Darrow

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
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
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Food Hate Myself Opinion
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
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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Hell Myself Suffering Understand
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
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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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
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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Home Knowledge Mad Mindset Possession Thinking

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