I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

- Clarence Darrow

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

- Clarence Darrow

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

- Clarence Darrow

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

- Clarence Darrow

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

- Clarence Darrow

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

- Clarence Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

- Clarence Darrow

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

- Clarence Darrow

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

- Clarence Darrow

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

- Clarence Darrow

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

- Clarence Darrow

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

- Clarence Darrow

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.

- Clarence Darrow

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

- Clarence Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

- Clarence Darrow

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

- Clarence Darrow

To think is to differ.

- Clarence Darrow

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

- Clarence Darrow

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

- Clarence Darrow

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

- Clarence Darrow