Clarence S. Darrow

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

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

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.

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

When I was a boy I was told that anyone could be President. I'm beginning to believe it.

You can only be free if I am free.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose

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

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

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

To think is to differ.

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

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

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.

The law is a horrible business.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

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

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

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Nigdy nie zabiłem człowieka, ale przeczytałem wiele nekrologów z wielką przyjemnością.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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