Clarence Seward Darrow quotes American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union Born: 04/18/1857 Died: 03/13/1938 Country: usa

• I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [men]
• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [think]
• I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [pleasure]
• I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [men]
• You can only be free if I am free. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• The trouble with law is lawyers. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [right]
• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? (Clarence Seward Darrow) [speak/english/speak]
• There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [thing/]
• 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 Seward Darrow) [trade/more/men/more]
• The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [life/parents]
• The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [truth/willpower]
• I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one. (Clarence Seward 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 Seward Darrow)
• Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose. (Clarence Seward 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 Seward Darrow)
• I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. (Clarence Seward 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 Seward Darrow)
• I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• 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. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. (Clarence Seward Darrow)
• None meet life honestly and few heroically. (Clarence Seward Darrow)

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