Top 30 Clarence Darrow Quotes

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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful tow

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.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
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There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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.
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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.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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.
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