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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf 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?
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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 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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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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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