To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion. — 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 Image
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }” — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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 Image
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — 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 by a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“ 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 Image
