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

William Jennings Bryan
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  2. If true Christianity consists in carrying out in our daily lives the teachings of Christ, who will say that we are commanded to civilize with dynamite and proselyte with the sword? ... Imperialism finds no warrant in the Bible. The command 'Go ye into all...

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