"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 Bryan
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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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"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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"Anglo-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 we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education."
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"I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together."
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