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"I protest! This is not only irrelevant, immaterial, it is illegal!"
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"I demand to know the purpose of Mr. Drummond's examination."
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"He wants to destroy everybody's belief in the Bible and in God."
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"That's not true and you know it."
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"The Bible is a book. It's a good book."
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"But it is not the only book."
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"It the revealed word of the Almighty God, spake to the men who wrote the Bible."
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"How do you know God didn't spake to Charles Darwin?"
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"I know because God tells me to oppose the evil teachings of that man."
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"God speaks to you? He tells you what is right and wrong? You act accordingly?"
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"So you, Matthew Harrison Brady, through oratory or legislature or whatever,"
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"you pass on God's orders to the rest of the world!"
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"Well, meet the prophet from Nebraska!"
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"- I... Please! - Is that the way of things?"
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"God tells Brady what is good."
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"To be against Brady is to be against God."
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"No! Each man is a free agent."
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"Then what is Bertram Cates doing in the Hillsboro jail?"
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"Supposing Mr. Cates had the influence and the lung power"
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"to rail road through the state legislature"
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"a law saying only Darwin could be taught in school."
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"Ridiculous. Ridiculous. There is only one great truth in the world."
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"The Gospel. The Gospel according to Brady!"
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"God speaks to Brady and Brady tells the world!"
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"- Brady, Brady, Brady Almighty! - The Lord is my strength!"
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"Suppose that a lesser human being, suppose a Cates or a Darwin,"
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"had the audacity to think that God might whisper to him,"
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"that an un-Brady thought might still be holy."
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"Must a man go to prison because he differs with the self-appointed prophet?"
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"Extend the testaments. Let us have a Book of Brady."
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"We shall hex the Pentateuch and slip you in between Numbers and Deuteronomy."
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"- My friends, Your Honour... - The witness is excused!"
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"All of you know what I stand for, what I believe."
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"I believe in the truth of the Book of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,"
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"Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth,"
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"First Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, Second Kings,"
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"Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel..."
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"Court is adjourned until ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
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"Matt. Matt, dear."
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"Let's go home."
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"- Home? - Back to the hotel."
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"Who is it?"
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"- Where is he? I've got to talk to him. - Not now. He isn't feeling well."
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"- Now. He must tell Bert it wasn't my fault. - Please be quiet. He's sleeping."
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"Why should I be quiet? I want the world to know Matthew Harrison Brady is a fake."
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"Rachel!"
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"I'm sorry."
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"I found myself in bed today, in the middle of the day."
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"I was dreaming I was in the witness chair, chained to it."
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"I kept begging him to let me go."
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"Rachel, it's been a nightmare for us all."
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"But mine was real. I turned to your husband for help."
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"He encouraged me to open up my heart to him and then he twisted my words."
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"He tricked me. Why? Why did he do it?"
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"I don't know. I don't know why he did it."
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"Maybe it meant too much to him. Maybe he was tired or afraid."
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"I taught my pupils that Matthew Harrison Brady was a great man."
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"Next to God, almost. What do you want me to teach them now?"
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"- He's still the same man. - No."
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"If he could do such an evil thing, then he must be an evil man."
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"- And all he stands for must be evil too. - Oh, stop it! Stop it!"
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"Youth can be so pure. What do you know of good or evil?"
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"What do you understand of the sum of a man's life?"
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"- He betrayed me. - You betrayed yourself."
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"You see my husband as a saint,"
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"and so he must be right in everything he says and does."
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"Then you see him as a devil,"
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"and everything he says and does must be wrong."
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"Well, my husband's neither a saint nor a devil."
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"He's just a human being and he makes mistakes."
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"- How can you defend him? - It's not he I'm defending."
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"I'm defending the 40 years I've lived with this man"
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"and watched him carry the burdens of people like you."
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"If he's been wrong, at least he stood for something. What do you stand for?"
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"Do you believe in Bertram Cates?"
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"I believe in my husband. What do you believe in?"
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"Matt."
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"I was asleep, but..."
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"What can I do for you, child?"
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"I'm not your child any longer, Mr. Brady."
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"Yours... or anyone else's."
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"What..."
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"What did she want, Sarah?"
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"She's been hurt, Matt."
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"You hurt her."
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"Oh, Matt, you were always a good man."
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"That's why I loved you, even from the very beginning."
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"People have said you made mistakes, wrong decisions."
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"You could have been president three times over."
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"But I never doubted you, Matt."
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"Because your decisions were honest. You never sacrificed your principles to win."
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"I didn't mean to hurt her."
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"Sarah,"
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"a victory here would be a monument to God that would last 1,000 years."
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"But, Matt, every man has to build his own monument."
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"You can't do it for them."
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"If you do, it becomes your monument, not theirs."
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"And they'll topple it the minute they find a flaw in it."
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"You mean a flaw in me, don't you, Sarah?"
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"They turned away from you this afternoon."
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"Oh, they didn't understand. But I'll make them understand."
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"They'll have to understand. My speech. Where's my speech?"
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"Matt."
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"I'll make them listen. Where's my speech? I'll make them understand."
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"- Please don't get excited. - Here it is. I have it all down on paper."
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"Sarah, it isn't just this case. It's God himself that's on trial."
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"They'll have to listen to me."
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"They will listen to me."
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"They'll listen, dear."
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"- Mother, they laughed at me. - Shh, baby."
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"I can't stand it when they laugh at me."
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"It's all right, baby. It's all right."
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"- They laughed. - Baby."
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"Baby."
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"Testing, testing. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four."
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"Testing. Testing. One, two, three, four."
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"One, two, three, four."
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"You've brought me some more clean shirts?"
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"Bert,"
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"I left my father."
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