Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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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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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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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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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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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by 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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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 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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