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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Principles are eternal ...

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

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.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

Destiny is not a 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.

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong

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.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

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.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret
my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

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.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

RockChristopher: Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

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.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice.
Not something to wish for, but to attain

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.