Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAgnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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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 that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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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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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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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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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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