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 BRYANAnglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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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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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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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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 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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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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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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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