You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANNone 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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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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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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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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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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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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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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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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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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