Famous Clarence Darrow Quotations

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"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."
by Clarence Darrow
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
by Clarence Darrow
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
by Clarence Darrow
"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance."
by Clarence Darrow
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."
by Clarence Darrow
"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
by 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"
by Clarence Darrow
"Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont."
by Clarence Darrow
"Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails."
by Clarence Darrow
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to"
by Clarence Darrow
"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."
by Clarence Darrow
"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose"
by Clarence Darrow
"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means."
by 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 agnosticism means."
by 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."
by 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"
by Clarence Darrow
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure."
by Clarence Darrow
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt"
by Clarence Darrow
"Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve."
by Clarence Darrow
"Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man."
by Clarence Darrow
"None meet life honestly and few heroically."
by Clarence Darrow
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."
by Clarence Darrow
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children."
by Clarence Darrow
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
by Clarence Darrow
"The law is a horrible business."
by Clarence Darrow
"The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself."
by Clarence Darrow
"The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it."
by Clarence Darrow
"There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court."
by Clarence Darrow
"To think is to differ."
by Clarence Darrow
"To think is to differ"
by Clarence Darrow
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
by Clarence Darrow
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else"
by Clarence Darrow
"We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell."
by Clarence Darrow
"We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell"
by Clarence Darrow
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."
by Clarence Darrow
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it"
by Clarence Darrow
"With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed."
by Clarence Darrow
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free."
by Clarence Darrow
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom."
by Clarence Darrow
"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't."
by Clarence Darrow
"The fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves is so well established, that it will not be necessary to weary the reader by many details. Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end. Suspicion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals. It is, I think, impossible to read the account given by Sir E. Tennent, of the behaviour of the female elephants, used as decoys, without admitting that they intentionally practise deceit, and well know what they are about. Courage and timidity are extremely variable qualities in the individuals of the same species, as is plainly seen in our dogs. Some dogs and horses are ill-tempered, and easily turn sulky; others are good-tempered; and these qualities are certainly inherited. Every one knows how liable animals are to furious rage, and how plainly they shew it. Many, and probably true, anecdotes have been published on the long-delayed and artful revenge of various animals. The accurate Rengger, and Brehm state that the American and African monkeys which they kept tame, certainly revenged themselves. Sir Andrew Smith, a zoologist whose scrupulous accuracy was known to many persons, told me the following story of which he was himself an eye-witness; at the Cape of Good Hope an officer had often plagued a certain baboon, and the animal, seeing him approaching one Sunday for parade, poured water into a hole and hastily made some thick mud, which he skilfully dashed over the officer as he passed by, to the amusement of many bystanders. For long afterwards the baboon rejoiced and triumphed whenever he saw his victim."
by Clarence Darrow
"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."
by Clarence Darrow
"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."
by Clarence Darrow
"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free."
by Clarence Darrow
"You can only be free if I am free."
by Clarence Darrow
"He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. On Calvin Coolidge"
by Clarence Darrow
"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
by Clarence Darrow
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."
by Clarence Darrow
"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails."
by 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."
by Clarence Darrow
"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."
by 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."
by Clarence Darrow


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