clarence darrow

“ In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads. ”

“ I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall. ”

“ Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. ”

“ If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. ”

“ To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. ”

“ The trouble with law is lawyers. ”

“ A criminal is a person with predatory instincts; but, without sufficient capital to form a corporation. ”

“ I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. ”

“ The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. ”

“ As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ”