Quotes by Clarence Darrow

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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 

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
    --Clarence Darrow 

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
    --Clarence Darrow 

Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else.
    --Clarence Darrow 

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
    --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 am examining you on your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian on earth believes.
    --Clarence Darrow 

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
    --Clarence Darrow 

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    --Clarence Darrow