There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAtheists 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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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet 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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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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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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If 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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Principles are eternal.
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