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William Jennings Bryan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1860
Born: March 18
Died: 1925
Died: July 26
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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
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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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I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.
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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
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