The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control 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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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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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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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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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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 we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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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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