Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

[Referring to FDR] If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.