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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
— Clarence Darrow
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
— Clarence Darrow
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
— Clarence Darrow
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
— Clarence Darrow
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
— Clarence Darrow
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
— Clarence Darrow
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
— Clarence Darrow
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
— Clarence Darrow
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
— Clarence Darrow
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
— Clarence Darrow
Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial.
— Clarence Darrow
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
— Clarence Darrow
We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
— Clarence Darrow
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
— Clarence Darrow
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
— Clarence Darrow
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
— Clarence Darrow
The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.
— 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
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
— Clarence Darrow
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
— Clarence Darrow
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
— Clarence Darrow
This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.
— Tennessee Williams
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
— Jill Lepore
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
— Clarence Darrow
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
— Clarence Darrow
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
— Clarence Darrow
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
— Clarence Darrow
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
— Clarence Darrow
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.— Clarence Darrow
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
— Clarence Darrow
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
— Clarence Darrow
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
— Clarence Darrow
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
— 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
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
— Clarence Darrow
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
— Clarence Darrow
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
— Clarence Darrow
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
— Clarence Darrow