As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANTwo 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 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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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Principles are eternal.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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 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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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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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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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Evolution 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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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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.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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