The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }” — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
“ Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
![“Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or…” quote by Clarence Darrow](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f69/clarence-darrow-1714_action_every-one-knows-that-the-heavenly-bodies_2673181.png)
