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They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

Al Smith

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty.
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Believe Children Converstone Country Liberty Public Religious School Support
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
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Country Eternal Hike Journey People Prepare Sunshine
It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.
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Attempt Cause Confession Faith Law Weakness
The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.
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Bridge Brooklyn Grew Together
Thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.
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Believe Church Church Establish Communicant Decree Force Law Make Own Power Tribunal
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
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Christmas Empty Fireplace Local Municipal Official Sane Santa Sea
The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize.
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Country Expression Great Influence Minority Organize Think
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
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Influence Law Minority Oppose Organize People Right Sympathy
I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.
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Country Disaster Divide Great Line Religious Think Voter
They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.
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Effective Express Own Seem Strength
If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
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Believe Laugh Like Make Man Think
I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise.
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Absolute Church Congress Constitution Enforce Establish Exercise Law Prohibit Respect Separate State Strict
I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor.
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Absolute Believe Church Conscience Equality Exercise Favour Freedom Law Matter Men Set
I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
AL SMITH

Absolute Believe Church Constitution Enforcement Establish Exercise Law Prohibit Respect Separation
I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.
AL SMITH

Believe Child Educate Every Faith Parent Public Right School Support
Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.
AL SMITH

Begin Journey Like Sin Step

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