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• Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars.
  Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards....
• Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details.
  It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience....
• There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearance
  he somehow seemed dirty, though a close glance showed him as carefully shaven as an actor, and clad in immaculate linen....
• The judge ought to give 'em a chance to tell what evolution is.
  Course we got them licked anyhow, but I believe in being fair and square and American....
• If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public school
  omorrow 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....
• Man is not a mammal. (Darrow made Bryan repeat this during the Scopes Trial.
  ) If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education....
• A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. -- H. L. Mencke
• The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• No one can earn a million dollars honestly. -- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)