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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAll 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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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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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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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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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.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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