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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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 can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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