The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

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.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.