The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROWThe only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can only be free if I am free.
CLARENCE DARROWMy constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROWJust think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
CLARENCE DARROWEducation was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWChase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROWWe know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
CLARENCE DARROWThe trouble with law is lawyers.
CLARENCE DARROWThe really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROWThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWI am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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 DARROWNo other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
CLARENCE DARROW