Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might …

- Clarence Darrow

A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe …

- Clarence Darrow

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

- Clarence Darrow

Sympathy is the child of imagination

- Clarence Darrow

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

- Clarence Darrow

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

- Clarence Darrow

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

- Clarence Darrow

The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow…

- Clarence Darrow

It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a…

- Clarence Darrow