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.
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?
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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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