That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAll the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Principles are eternal.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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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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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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