My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANYou shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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.
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When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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 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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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