Carolina QuotesI have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. … I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
William Jennings Bryan Carolinian
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- Scopes Trial (1925)
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- 1925
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