Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAnglo-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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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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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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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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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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 evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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