Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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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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Principles are eternal.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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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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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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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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