Clarence Darrow Quotes

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

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

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

You can only be free if I am free.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

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

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

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

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

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

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

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

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.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

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

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

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

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

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

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