My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANNo one can earn a million dollars honestly.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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If 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.
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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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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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