Clarence Darrow Quotes

• Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Nothing

• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Think, Tragedy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Single, Support, Reason

• If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Think, Laugh

• If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Wrong, Something

• I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Notices, Wanted, Pleasure

• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understood, Suffered

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate, Liked, Glad

• I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in God

  Tags in Believe

• I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend, Working

• History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in History

  Tags in Repeats, Things

• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

  Clarence Darrow

• Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Depression

• Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Came

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long, Forever, Objected

• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Leadership, Politics

  Tags in Believe, Become

• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Patriotism, True, Injustice

• The trouble with law is lawyers.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Legal

• I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Men, Ignorant, Sure

• I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Killed

Clarence Darrow (45)

Birth:	18th April, 1857
Death:	13th March, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Clarence Seward Darrow was born in Kinsman Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. He was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1878.

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