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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

William Jennings Bryan

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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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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 BRYAN

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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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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Earn Honesty Money Oneself
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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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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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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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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 and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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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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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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