The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANBehold 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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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 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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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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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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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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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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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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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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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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