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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANBurn 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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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 greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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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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