Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANChrist has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Principles are eternal.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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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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If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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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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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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