Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
-
-
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
CLARENCE 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 DARROW -
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROW -
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROW -
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I 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 DARROW -
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
CLARENCE DARROW






