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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANWe 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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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 have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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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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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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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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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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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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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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