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"We do not need experts to question the validity of a law already on the books."
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"What do you need? A gallows to hang him from?"
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"That remark is an insult to this community."
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"And this community is an insult to the world."
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"Your Honour, I request permission to withdraw from this case."
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"- You can't quit now. - You were ready to five minutes ago."
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"Colonel Drummond. What reasons can you possibly have?"
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"Well, there are 200 of 'em."
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"And if that's not enough, there's one more."
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"I think my client has already been found guilty."
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"Is Mr. Drummond saying that this expression of an honest emotion"
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"will influence the court's impartial administration of the law?"
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"I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially."
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"You can only destroy and punish."
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"And I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches."
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"- Its upholders as well as its defiers. - Colonel Drummond."
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"Can't you understand that if you take a law like evolution"
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"and make it a crime to teach it in public schools,"
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"tomorrow you could make it a crime to teach it in private schools,"
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"and tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it?"
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"And soon you may ban books and newspapers."
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"And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant,"
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"and Protestant against Protestant,"
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"and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man."
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"If you can do one you can do the other,"
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"because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding."
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"And soon, Your Honour, with banners flying and with drums beating,"
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"we'll be marching backward."
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"Backward!"
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"Through the glorious ages of that 16th century,"
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"when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment"
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"and intelligence to the human mind."
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"I hope counsel does not mean to imply that this court is bigoted."
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"- Your Honour has the right to hope. - I have the right to do more than that."
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"You have the power to do more than that."
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"And I exercise that power."
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"I order you to show 'cause tomorrow morning at ten o'clock"
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"why you should not be held in contempt of court."
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"In the meanwhile, I order that you be held in custody of the bailiff."
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"Bail is fixed at $2,000."
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"$2,000? Why don't you make it 4,000?"
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"It's four, Colonel Drummond."
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"Your Honour, my paper will post the bond."
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"Can you prove legal authorisation to make such a commitment for your employer?"
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"- I'll wire my paper immediately. - Fine."
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"Until then, Colonel Drummond can avail himself of our municipal accommodation."
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"Your Honour. Your Honour, sir."
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"I'll put up my farm for Mr. Drummond."
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"We have no way of ascertaining the value of your farm, sir."
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"It ought to be worth that much."
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"The law demands that bond be posted in cash."
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"Your Honour, my bank will honour the offer on the security of his farm."
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"He has considerably more equity in it than that."
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"Very well. You can make arrangements with the court clerk."
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"- Who are you? - My name is John Stebbins."
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"The court will adjourn and reconvene at 10am tomorrow."
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"♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ Our God is marching on ♪"
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"♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪"
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"♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪"
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"She'll sleep all right tonight."
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"Give her these pills tomorrow and keep her in bed."
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"Thank you, John."
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"Rachel."
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"Rachel?"
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"♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ Our God is marching on ♪"
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"♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪"
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"♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪"
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"♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪"
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"♪ His truth is marching on ♪"
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"♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ Our God is marching on ♪"
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"♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"♪ Our God is marching on ♪"
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"♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪"
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"♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪"
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"♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ His truth... ♪"
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"Grrr!"
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"- Trick or treat? - Oh, for..."
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"Hooligans of the world unite!"
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"You've got nothing to burn but your intellectuals."
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"Well, those are the boobs that make our laws. It's the democratic process."
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"I suppose you have something better to suggest."
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"♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond ♪ ♪ to a sour apple tree ♪"
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"Hm."
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"Looks like you're going out in a blaze of glory, Counsellor."
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"Well, you were pretty impressive for a while there today, Henry."
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""Your Honour, after a while you'll be setting man against man,"
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""creed against creed, et cetera, et cetera. Ad nauseam." Unquote."
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"Henry, why don't you wake up? Darwin was wrong."
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"Man's still an ape and his creed's still a totem pole."
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"When he first achieved the upright position, he looked at the stars."
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"Thought they were something to eat."
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"He couldn't reach them, and he decided they were groceries of a bigger creature."
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"That's how Jehovah was born."
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"I wish I had your worm's-eye view of history. It would make things a lot easier."
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"Oh, no. Not for you. No. You'd still be spending your time"
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"trying to make sense out of what is laughingly referred to as the human race."
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"Why don't you take your blinders off?"
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"Don't you know the future's already obsolete?"
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"You think man still has a noble destiny."
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"Well, I tell you he's already started on his backward march"
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"to the salt and stupid sea from which he came."
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"What about men like Bert Cates?"
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"Cates?"
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"A monkey who tried to fly."
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"Cates climbed to the top of the totem pole but then he jumped."
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"And there was nobody there to catch him. Not even you."
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"You were there. You saw what they did to my witnesses."
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"- What you need's a drink. - What I need is a miracle."
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"Miracle? Here's a whole bagful."
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"Courtesy of Matthew Harrison Brady."
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"Your Honour."
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