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.
CLARENCE DARROWMost lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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.
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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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