Liberty Quotes by Clarence Darrow

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

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

— Clarence Darrow

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

— Clarence Darrow

“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }”

— Clarence Darrow

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

“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

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

— Clarence Darrow

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

— Clarence Darrow

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

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

— Clarence Darrow

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

“ 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

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Clarence Darrow

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