If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.
Clarence DarrowI have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Clarence DarrowChloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
Clarence DarrowI am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
Clarence Darrow