Quotes from Clarence Darrow

I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

You can only be free if I am free.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

The law is a horrible business.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

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

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

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.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

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

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.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

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.

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

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.