Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sincere hope that during our debate you will quote your own 'record,' etc., more accurately than you quote Scripture. The quotation you give, 'thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor' was not a part of 'the teachings of Christ,'* as you say, but one of the Ten Commandments revealed to us through Moses. It is in the Old Testament-recorded in Exodus, twentieth chapter, sixteenth verse. Jesus's teaching was yet higher. He taught that love is the fulfillment of the law, and therefore the true basis of fellowship...
...Straton has, especially in the South, great prestige. He is the big-city representative of small-town theology and morality. He would, of course, attack Gov. Smith. But he could not say that Gov. Smith is immoral. Detectives have for a decade, hounded Gov. Smith's present and past. Apparently Gov. Smith has never visited a brothel. Apparently Gov. Smith has never spent so much as an hour in compromising circumstances with any woman. Therefore, Dr. Straton's attack must be "However clean . . . nevertheless...
...meeting be held, therefore, in Madison Square Garden, or other suitable, very large hall, with a division of the sittings-say, to the number of 3,000 for our Calvary members and friends, and the same number for, say, the St. Patrick's Cathedral congregation and your friends-the other 20,000 sittings to be equally divided between Democratic and Republican headquarters for distribution...
...Johns Hopkins University, no professor enjoys greater prestige than Dr. John Holladay Latane, U. S. history man. At a Smith rally, a fortnight ago, Dr. Latane said: "Speaking as a historian, I say very seriously that it is my opinion that the Society of Jesus*in the palmiest days of its history never held a nation in so firm a grasp as the 'political parsons' of certain Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition...
...Governor Smith is the first man of national prominence in this country to come forward and say what we all know to be true, namely that enforcement is a failure. Mr. Hoover doesn't believe in prohibition any more than...