Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROWIn order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
-
-
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The purpose of life is to live it.
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 -
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROW -
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROW -
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
CLARENCE DARROW