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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThere can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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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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Principles are eternal.
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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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