Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWCalvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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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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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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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.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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