Quotes By Clarence Darrow

You can only be free if I am free.

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.

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.

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

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

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

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

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.

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

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

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

To think is to differ.