Spencer Tracy in Inherit The Wind has something to say about right wing America....

[Postman]

Henry Drummond- Spencer Tracy
Matthew Harrison Brady- Fredric March

Matthew Harrison Brady: But your client is wrong. He is deluded. He has lost his way.

Henry Drummond: It's a shame we don't all possess your positive knowledge of what is right and what is wrong, Mr. Brady.

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Matthew Harrison Brady: I do not think about things I do not think about. (Rumsfeldian quote)

Henry Drummond: Do you ever think about things that you do think about?

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Judge: (after Drummond asks the judge for permission to withdraw from the case) Colonel Drummond, what reasons can you possibly have?

Henry Drummond: (Indicates the crowd) Well, there are two hundred of them.
(Crowd reacts angrily)

Henry Drummond: And if that's not enough there's one more. I think my client has already been found guilty.

Matthew Harrison Brady: (Rises) Is Mr. Drummond saying that this expression of an honest emotion will in any way influence the court's impartial administration of the law?

Henry Drummond: I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy, you can only punish. And I warn you, that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys every one it touches. Its upholders as well as its defiers.....(Harsh Interrogation)

Judge: Colonel Drummond...

Henry Drummond: Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!

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1. Inherit the Wind is one of my all time favorite movies

Spencer Tracy's performance was fantastic, and the message from the film is timeless, IMO.

[Captain Hilts]

2. BigTime Tracy fan here!!! Thanks!

It's interesting how the Soviet biography goes into detail on how he believe the stuff he said in Inherit the Wind and Judgment at Nuremberg.