Quotes from Clarence Darrow

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want and then when you see what the other fellow got you wish you had taken that.

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

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

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

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can`t.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

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.

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

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.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

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

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.