“Why should the Bible, which the centuries have been unable to shake, be discarded for scientific works that have to be corrected and revised every few years?”
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“If men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backwards toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people...We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them.”
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“This has been an age in which we have humanized God and deified man, and we have worshipped at the throne of science”
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“I am not at all concerned about whose side God is on, for I know the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.”
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“I found I had learned more from defeats than from victories. All that I wanted was a life in which I had just one more victory than defeat”
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