The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANOur government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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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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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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