Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrowwas an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. Some of his other notable cases included defending Ossian Sweet, and 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...
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth18 April 1857
CityKinsman, OH
The 'single tax' is so simple, so fundamental, and so easy to carry into effect that I have no doubt that it will be about the last reform the world will ever get. People in this world are not often logical.
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
People in this world are not often logical.
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
What I hope to see for labor is the people who work in factories own the factories
My dear woman, ... ever since the Phoenicians invented money there has been only one answer to that question.
The origin of the human race is not as blind a subject as it once was. Let alone God creating Adam out of hand, from the dust of the earth, does anyone believe that Eve was made from Adam's rib...?
Whenever I hear of birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.