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.

If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

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

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

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.

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.