I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the… — 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
It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his… — 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
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to… — 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
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
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself. — 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
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced… — 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
