For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

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 am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

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

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.