If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANLove 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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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 speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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All 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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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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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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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