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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Destiny is no 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 humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

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.

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

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.

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

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

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

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.

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

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

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

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.

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

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

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

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

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.

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

Destiny is no 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?

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

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

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

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.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

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

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.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.