Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROWCalvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROWHuman action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
CLARENCE DARROWI am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
CLARENCE DARROWLost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWI don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWThe man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
CLARENCE DARROWThe objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
CLARENCE DARROWLife is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
CLARENCE DARROWInside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROWI am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
CLARENCE DARROWSomeday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROWI have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
CLARENCE DARROWThe most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROW