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 BRYANGreed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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 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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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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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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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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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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