None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANWe spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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.
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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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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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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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