Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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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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Principles are eternal.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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None 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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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