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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Principles are eternal.
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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 people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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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 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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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If 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?
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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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