Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROWMost jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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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.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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 origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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