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 BRYANIf matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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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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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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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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 the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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