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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANMy 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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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.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to 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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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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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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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