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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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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 we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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