The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Principles are eternal.
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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 the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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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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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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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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