You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANMost of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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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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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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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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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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 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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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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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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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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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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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