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If 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.

William Jennings Bryan

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Suffering Teaching Trace
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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Body Change Count Death Man Spark Spirit
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Attitude Evolution Mindset Natural Spiritual
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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Better Destroy Evolution Save Suffering Trace
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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Empire Fear Flag Stand
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Democracy Hope Myself Party Togetherness
Principles are eternal.
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Forever One Liner Principle
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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Employment Errors God Man Mistake Religious Willing
This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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Consent Earth Nation People Question
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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Evolution Guess Togetherness Truth
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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Blessing Enjoyment Government Man Ourselves Pay Share Willing
The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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Bank Large Opportunity Profit
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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Argument Freedom Myself People Silver
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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Atheist Home Parents Pay Right Teacher
The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Earth Greatness Little Slow
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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Active Burden Enjoyment Life
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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Accomplishment Believe Sincerity Success Willing Wrong
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Breathe Change Fear Human Life Live Moments Thinking
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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Confidence Development Experience Record Success Yourself
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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Assumption Chronicle Creation Earth Life Reveal Source
Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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Conversation Listening Oneself People Talk Thinking
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Convert Enemy Friendship Love Money Prejudice
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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Gold Hard Work Kind Labor Man Yourself
Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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Company Death Future Union
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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Animation Brief Change Man Pay Suffering Visit
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Live Ourselves Rest
If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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Lawyer Need Requirement