If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAll the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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Principles are eternal.
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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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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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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