When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it. - Clarence Darrow

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

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. The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.