Father Edward J. 'Eddie' Flanagan: The coddled, the weak and the doubting will fall.


--Spencer Tracy (as Father Flanagan) in Men of Boys Town

Father Edward J. 'Eddie' Flanagan: Youth is the greatest natural resource of the country.


--Spencer Tracy (as Father Flanagan) in Men of Boys Town

Father Edward J. Flanagan: I know that a mother can take a whip to the toughest boy in the world, and he forgets it because he knows that she loves him.


--Spencer Tracy (as Father Flanagan) in Boys Town

Father Edward J. Flanagan: There is no such thing as a bad boy.


--Spencer Tracy (as Father Flanagan) in Boys Town

Fred P. Willis: Don't you know us guys has gotta make the world safe for the Democrats? Now, personally, my only regret is that I got a life to lay down for my country. But will us dead have died in vain? Be yourself! Remember the Alamo! Remember the Maine! Fifty-four Forty or fight! Don't give up the ship until you see the whites of their eyes! Are we gonna stand for taxation without the pursuit of happiness? E pluribus unum! Hats off! Lafayette, we are here!
[whistles]


--Spencer Tracy (as ) in They Gave Him a Gun

Henry Drummond: An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral!


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

Henry Drummond: As long as the prerequisite for that shining paradise is ignorance, bigotry and hate, I say the hell with it.


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

Henry Drummond: But all you have to do is knock on any door and say, "If you let me in, I'll live the way you want me to live, and I'll think the way you want me to think," and all the blinds'll go up and all the windows will open, and you'll never be lonely, ever again. If that's the case, I'll change the plea - that is, if you know the law's right and you're wrong.


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

Henry Drummond: For I intend to show this court that what Bertram Cates spoke quietly one spring morning in the Hillsboro High School is not crime. It is incontrovertible as geometry to any enlightened community of minds.
Prosecutor Tom Davenport: In this community, Colonel Drummond, and in this sovereign state, exactly the opposite is the case. The language of the law is clear, your Honor. We do not need experts to question the validity of a law that is already on the books.
Henry Drummond: Well, what do you need? A gallows to hang him from?
Prosecutor Tom Davenport: That remark is an insult to this entire community.
Henry Drummond: And this community is an insult to the world.


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

Henry Drummond: Hornbeck, I'm getting tired of you. You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.


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