Famous Quotes

Quotes by Clarence Darrow

• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
• History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
• I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
• 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.
• I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
• If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
• Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
• Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
• The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
• 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.
• The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.
• The trouble with law is lawyers.
• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.
• You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.