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~ Clarence S. Darrow Quotes ~
« on: March 21, 2014, 10:06:04 AM »
Clarence S. Darrow Quotes


An American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks and defending John T.
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial (1925), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan (statesman, noted orator, and 3-time presidential candidate). Called a "sophisticated country lawyer", he remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.

Here are some famous quotes by Clarence S. Darrow.




To think is to differ.

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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2014, 10:06:29 AM »
The trouble with law is lawyers.

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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2014, 10:06:53 AM »
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2014, 10:07:20 AM »
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2014, 10:07:53 AM »
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2014, 10:08:20 AM »
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2014, 10:09:54 AM »
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2014, 10:10:23 AM »
Even if you do learn to speak correct English whom are you going to speak it to?

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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2014, 10:10:52 AM »
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2014, 10:11:21 AM »
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2014, 10:15:38 AM »
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

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« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2014, 10:16:03 AM »
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.

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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2014, 10:16:38 AM »
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't.

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« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2014, 10:17:06 AM »
Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want and then when you see what the other fellow got you wish you had taken that.

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« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2014, 10:17:28 AM »
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.