The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
- Clarence Darrow
Legal, Trial Lawyers, Cases
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
Reason, Fact, Immortality, Spite
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
- Clarence Darrow
Doom, Side, Passengers, Drifting
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
- Clarence Darrow
Glad, Like, Liked, Spinach
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
- Clarence Darrow
Business, Law, Would, Dishonest
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow
Beginning, Politics, Anybody, President
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow
Die, Never, See, Notices
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
Strong, Natural, Sure, Doubting
To think is to differ.
- Clarence Darrow
Think, Differ
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
Children, Half, Lives, Ruined
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
- Clarence Darrow
More, Been, Had, Misunderstood
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow
Death, Never, Read, Great Pleasure
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow
Rather, Sure, Means, Agnostic
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
- Clarence Darrow
I Am, Men, Sure, Agnostic
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
- Clarence Darrow
Power, Lose, Think, Laugh
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
- Clarence Darrow
Church, May, Depressions, Funerals
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
- Clarence Darrow
I Am, His, Would, Working Man
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
- Clarence Darrow
Happy, Some, Does, Laughing
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow
Ignorant, Sure, Means, Agnosticism
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
- Clarence Darrow
Corner, Ever, Greatest Man, Vermont
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
- Clarence Darrow
Help, Other, Ever, Severe
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
- Clarence Darrow
Justice, Nothing, Goes, Courtroom
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
- Clarence Darrow
Will, Last, Shall, Rebelled
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
- Clarence Darrow
Freedom, Other, Protecting, Protect
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
- Clarence Darrow
Habits, Bad, Working People, Bad Habits
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
- Clarence Darrow
Give, Will, Away, Copies
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
- Clarence Darrow
Truth, Never, Set, Catch
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow
Things, Repeats, Itself, Wrong
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
- Clarence Darrow
Laws, Like, Fit, Clothes
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
- Clarence Darrow
Touch, Like, Though, Coat
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
Discover, Alive, Idea, Childish
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
- Clarence Darrow
Justice, Out, Thing, Court
The trouble with law is lawyers.
- Clarence Darrow
Law, Legal, Lawyers, Trouble
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
- Clarence Darrow
Patriotism, Injustice, More, Anywhere Else
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
- Clarence Darrow
Learn, Correct, Even, Whom
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
- Clarence Darrow
Mother, Believe, Because, Goose
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
- Clarence Darrow
Few, Honestly, None, Meet
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
- Clarence Darrow
Children, Doubt, Think, Tragedy
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
- Clarence Darrow
Lost, Fighting, Only, Causes
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
- Clarence Darrow
Happy, Man, Doing, Considered
You can only be free if I am free.
- Clarence Darrow
I Am, Free, Only, Freedom
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