Clarence Darrow
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Collection: Patriotism
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.Collection: Truth
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.Collection: Death
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.Collection: Legal
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.Collection: Religion
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.Collection: Truth
The trouble with law is lawyers.Collection: Legal
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.Collection: Politics
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.Collection: Men
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.Collection: History
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.Collection: Freedom
You can only be free if I am free.Collection: Freedom
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
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.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
To think is to differ.
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.
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.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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.
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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.
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.
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.Collection: Life
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.Collection: Funny
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.Collection: Tyrants
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.Collection: Pain
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.Collection: Love
I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.Collection: Heart
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.Collection: Freedom
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.Collection: Lying
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporateCollection: Criminals