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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANGreed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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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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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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Principles are eternal.
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