No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
CLARENCE DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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