Clarence Darrow Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Clarence Darrow:

You can only be free if I am free.
~Clarence Darrow


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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
~Clarence Darrow


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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.
~Clarence Darrow


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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
~Clarence Darrow


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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
~Clarence Darrow


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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
~Clarence Darrow


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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
~Clarence Darrow


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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
~Clarence Darrow


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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
~Clarence Darrow


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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
~Clarence Darrow


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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
~Clarence Darrow


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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
~Clarence Darrow


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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
~Clarence Darrow


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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
~Clarence Darrow


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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
~Clarence Darrow


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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.
~Clarence Darrow


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To think is to differ.
~Clarence Darrow


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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
~Clarence Darrow


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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
~Clarence Darrow


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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
~Clarence Darrow


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I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
~Clarence Darrow


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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
~Clarence Darrow


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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.
~Clarence Darrow


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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.
~Clarence Darrow


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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#8f0ea07e

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
~Clarence Darrow


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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.
~Clarence Darrow


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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
~Clarence Darrow


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The trouble with law is lawyers.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#098f55cb

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
~Clarence Darrow


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History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
~Clarence Darrow


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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#69738864

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#ae31fa30

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#5b516b8f

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#0720a123

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
~Clarence Darrow


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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#57a60bdb

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#cf42cb55

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.
~Clarence Darrow


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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
~Clarence Darrow


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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
~Clarence Darrow


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clarence-darrow-quotes/#f67ed365

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