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Inspirational Quotations by Clarence Darrow (American Lawyer)

Inspirational Quotations by Clarence Darrow (American Lawyer)

Clarence Seward Darrow (1857–1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert “Bobby” Franks, for defending Ossian Sweet, and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan. Called a “sophisticated country lawyer”, he remains notable for his wit, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.

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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
—Clarence Darrow

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.
—Clarence Darrow

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
—Clarence Darrow
Topics: Thinking, Laughter

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
—Clarence Darrow
Topics: Morals

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
—Clarence Darrow
Topics: Death, Dying, Nature

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
—Clarence Darrow
Topics: Bravery, Idleness

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can’t.
—Clarence Darrow
Topics: Age, Aging, Revolution

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