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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.

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
CLARENCE DARROW

Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
CLARENCE DARROW

Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
CLARENCE DARROW

Better Fight Himself Man
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROW

Born Greatness Man
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
CLARENCE DARROW

Capital Cooperation Criminal
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Freedom Human Institution Law
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Myself Surprise Wrong
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROW

Himself Lying Need
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
CLARENCE DARROW

Forget Jury Lost Win

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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