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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANI hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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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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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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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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