Clarence DarrowThinkers

Agnosticism is simply to not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure.

Atheism is essentially the idea that God is not to be believed in for the same reason that we don't believe in mother goose.

The Bible is a book written over a period of a thousand years by men who believed the earth was flat.

A Father is not one who teaches you how to live. Rather, he lives and lets you watch him do it.

God is not to be believed in for the same reason that mother goose is not.

Herbert Hoover is incompetent — if elected, he will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

Law is a horrible business.

The Monument is distinguished from an idea in that an idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Murder is not so foreign a concept — everybody is a potential murderer. Many of us have never killed anyone, but frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.