Clarence Seward Darrow quotes and words of wisdom

"I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
Found in the topic Agnostic.

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

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Found in the topic Death.

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I beginning to believe it."
Found in the topic President.

"With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
Found in the topic Engineer.

"History repeats itself, and that"s one of the things that"s wrong with history."
Found in the topic History.

"There is no such thing as justice-?in or out of court."
Found in the topic Immorality.

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

"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."
Found in the topic Freedom.

"I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose."
Found in the topic War.

"Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth."
Found in the topic Birthday.

"The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself."
Found in the topic Spending.

"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
Found in the topic Laugh.

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

"The pursuit of truth shall set you free ? even if you never catch up with it."
Found in the topic Truth.

"There is no such thing as justice ? in or out of court."
Found in the topic Court.

"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can"t."
Found in the topic Age.

"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."
Found in the topic Easy.

"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."
Found in the topic Rebellion.

Interesting Quotes

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.H. L. Mencken - US editor (1880 - 1956)

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.Alfred Hitchcock - British movie director (1899 - 1980)