Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANEvolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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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If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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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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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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