Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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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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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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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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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Principles are eternal.
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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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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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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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