257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all, she will have nothing. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

To think is to differ.

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

The trouble with law is lawyers.