Darrow, Clarence S.

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

"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it."

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

"There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil."

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means." - courtroom argument (at Scopes trial, 1925)

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means." - courtroom argument (at Scopes trial, 1925)

"There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court." - quoted in New York Times