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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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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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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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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap 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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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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