1. “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.”
2. ”Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.”
3. “Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
4. “History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
5. "If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and 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 the newspapers... Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind."
6. ”If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.”
7. “Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else.”
8. “Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.”
9. “Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”
10. "The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."
11. "To think is to differ ."
12. “What are these sins? What has the human race done that was so bad, except to eat of the tree of knowledge? Does anybody need to save man from his sins in a miraculous way? It is an absurd piece of theology which they themselves say that you must accept on faith because your reason won't lead you to it. You can't do it that way.”
13. "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it."
14. "You can only be free if I am free."
15. “You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.”
