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 BRYANLove 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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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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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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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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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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