If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Principles are eternal.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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