Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
Clarence Darrow

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
Clarence Darrow

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

None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
Clarence Darrow

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Clarence Darrow

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.
Clarence Darrow

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow

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

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.
Clarence Darrow

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow

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.
Clarence Darrow

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

To think is to differ.
Clarence Darrow

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

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

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
Clarence Darrow

You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow