If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANBurn 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.
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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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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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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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