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

Clarence Darrow

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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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
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
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
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
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
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
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
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

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