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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANYou shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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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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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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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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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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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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 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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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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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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