The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThat 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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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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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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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If 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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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