Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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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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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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