Quotes by Clarence Darrow

"Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices."

"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."

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

"To think is to differ."

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for."

"The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with 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 have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood."

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

"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

"The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries."

"The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it."

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