Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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Principles are eternal.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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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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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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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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When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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