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 DARROWIn life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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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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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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