“Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!”

“We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.”

“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”

“I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.”

“He stared at the cheap linoleum between his shoes and admitted to himself that once again he had fallen into the trap that often snared so many of the educated and upper-class locals when they convinced themselves that the rest of the population was stupid and ignorant. Cranwell was smarter than most lawyers in town, and infinitely more prepared.”

“I wished i were seven feet tall. I'd hop up there and attack ol' Samson while the crowd went wild. I'd whip him good, send him flying, and become the biggest hero in Black Oak. But, for now, I could only boo him.”

“No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.”