No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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.
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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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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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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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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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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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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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