257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

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

Sympathy is the child of imagination.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.

I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don’t sleep in yours.

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

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.