Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)

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

Attributed

• "Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont."

• "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."

• "To think is to differ."

• "I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure."