Clarence Darrow

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

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

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

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

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

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

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

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

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

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.

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.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

To think is to differ.

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.

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.

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

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.

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