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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.

William Jennings Bryan

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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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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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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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Age Important Rock
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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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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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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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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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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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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Drive God Himself Hope Universe
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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