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Quotes by Clarence Darrow


You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
– Clarence Darrow
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
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
– Clarence Darrow
He's [Calvin Coolidge] the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont.
– Clarence Darrow
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
– Clarence Darrow
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
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
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
– Clarence Darrow
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
– Clarence Darrow
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
– Clarence Darrow
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
– Clarence Darrow
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
– Clarence Darrow
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
– Clarence Darrow
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
– Clarence Darrow
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
– Clarence Darrow
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
– Clarence Darrow
The trouble with law is lawyers.
– Clarence Darrow
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
– Clarence Darrow
To think is to differ.
– Clarence Darrow
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
– Clarence Darrow
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
– Clarence Darrow
You can only be free if I am free.
– Clarence Darrow
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
– Clarence Darrow
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
– Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
– Clarence Darrow
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
– Clarence Darrow
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
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
– Clarence Darrow
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
– Clarence Darrow
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
– Clarence Darrow