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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.

William Jennings Bryan

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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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 evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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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 great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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