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?
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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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