Clarence Darrow

(1857-1938)

U.S. attorney, defense counsel at the Scopes trial

Attributed

  • "Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."

  • "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"

  • "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."

  • "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."

  • "I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose."

  • "Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for."

  • "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."

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

  • "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."

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







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