A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThere can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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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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Principles are eternal.
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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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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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