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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

William Jennings Bryan

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Crucify Gold Kind Man Yourself
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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Empire Fear Flag Stand
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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Defend Discussion Greatness Human Interest Place Public Rights Talk
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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Connection Money Soul Temptation
Principles are eternal.
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Forever One Liner Principle
If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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Lawyer Need Requirement
If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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Drive God Himself Hope Universe
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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Employment Errors God Man Mistake Religious Willing
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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Accomplishment Believe Sincerity Success Willing Wrong
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Earn Honesty Money Oneself
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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Law Old Rest Reveal
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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Assumption Human Life Man Murder Responsibility Vote
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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Animal Believe Man Reason Small
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Acknowledgement Depend Ourselves
One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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Believe Easy Miracle Oneself
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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Convert Enemy Friendship Love Money Prejudice
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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Believe Essential Moral Practical Religion True
If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Bible Religious Science Wrong
The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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Fire Oneself Speech Talk Thinking
The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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Essence Expression Goodness Patriot Sacrifice True Willing
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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Body Change Count Death Man Spark Spirit
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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Death Enough Information Live Religion Satisfaction Time Try
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Attitude Evolution Mindset Natural Spiritual
If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Believe Myself Swallow
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Live Ourselves Rest
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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Feeling Himself Man Thinking
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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Evolution Suffering Teaching Trace