Henry Drummond: I didn't come here to make this town different. I came here to defend this man's right to be different.


--Spencer Tracy (as Henry Drummond) in Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond: I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands.


--Spencer Tracy (as Henry Drummond) in Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond: Is that the way of things? God tells Brady what is good; to be against Brady is to be against God!
Matthew Harrison Brady: No! Every man is a free agent!
Henry Drummond: Then what is Bertram Cates doing in the Hillsboro jail?


--Spencer Tracy (as Henry Drummond) in Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond: Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it.
Henry Drummond: Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance.
Henry Drummond: Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat.
Henry Drummond: Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."


--Spencer Tracy (as Henry Drummond) in Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond: Suppose God whispered into a Bertram Cates' ear that an un-Brady thought could still be holy? Must men go to jail because they find themselves at odds with a self-appointed prophet?


--Spencer Tracy (as Henry Drummond) in Inherit the Wind

Henry Drummond: The Bible is a book. It's a good book, but it is not the only book.


--Spencer Tracy (as Henry Drummond) in Inherit the Wind

Henry M. Stanley: Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Dr. David Livingstone: Yes!
Henry M. Stanley: Thank God, Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.


--Spencer Tracy (as ) in Stanley and Livingstone

Joe Wilson: I am legally dead!


--Spencer Tracy (as Joe Wilson) in Fury

Joe Wilson: I'll give them a chance that they didn't give me. They will get a legal trial in a legal courtroom. They will have a legal judge and a legal defense. They will get a legal sentence and a legal death.


--Spencer Tracy (as Joe Wilson) in Fury

Joe Wilson: The mob doesn't think. It has no mind of its own.


--Spencer Tracy (as Joe Wilson) in Fury