No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAs 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.
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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 the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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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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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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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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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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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