Scopes Isn’t On Trial; Civilization Is On

To Say That The Universe Was Here Last Year, Or Millions Of Years Ago, Does Not Explain Its Origin. This Is Still A Mystery. As To The Question Of The Origin Of Things, Man Can Only Wonder And Doubt And Guess.

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.

Liberty Is The Most Jealous And Exacting Mistress That Can Beguile The Brain And Soul Of Man. She Will Have Nothing From Him Who Will Not Give Her All. She Knows That His Pretended Love Serves But To Betray. But When Once The Fierce Heat Of Her Quenchless, Lustrous Eyes Have Burned Into The Victim's Heart, He Will Know No Other Smile But Hers.

Autobiography Is Never Entirely True. No One Can Get The Right Perspective On Himself. Every Fact Is Colored By Imagination And Dream.

The Law Does Not Pretend To Punish Everything That Is Dishonest. That Would Seriously Interfere With Business.