If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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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 great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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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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