If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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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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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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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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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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