No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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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 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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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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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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If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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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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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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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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