Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAgnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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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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Principles are eternal.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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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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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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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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There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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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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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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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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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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