When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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 have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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