When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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