In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROWIn order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROWThe only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROWThe most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWAnyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROWMost lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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 DARROWThe audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
CLARENCE DARROWEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROWThere are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWHuman action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
CLARENCE DARROWThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
CLARENCE DARROWLost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWMost jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
CLARENCE DARROWThe Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
CLARENCE DARROW