Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAtheists 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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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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My 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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Principles are eternal.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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