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Clarence Darrow Quotes


Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

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

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

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.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

To think is to differ.

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

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

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

You can only be free if I am free.