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.
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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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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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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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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