Quotes By Clarence Darrow

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

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.

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

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

You can only be free if I am free.

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

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

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.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

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.

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

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