If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANWhen I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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The 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.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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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.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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