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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANWhen 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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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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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 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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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