Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Different strokes for different folks.
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
Lawyers are natural politicians.
The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
The purpose of life is to live it.
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.