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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANChrist has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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