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Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. 
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws. 
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. 
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. 
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live. 
In 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. 
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. 
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man. 
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. 
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. 
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. 
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. 
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. 
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. 
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. 
The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades. 
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. 
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. 
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. 
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice. 
Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate 
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it - religious fanaticism. 
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. 
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. 
People in this world are not often logical. 
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. 
Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls. 
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. 
To know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgement and condemnation. 
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. 
There are two things that kill a genius: a fatal disease and contentment. 
Lawyers are natural politicians. 
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money. 
None meet life honestly and few heroically. 
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man public opinion.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. 
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? 
Most 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. 
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. 
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. 
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. 
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man. 
The law is a horrible business. 
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. 
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand. 
Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state. 
The trouble with law is lawyers. 
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much. 
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. 
I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose. 
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate 
To think is to differ. 
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. 
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. 
Great wealth often curses all who touch it. 
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet. 
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. 
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work. 