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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANMy place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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