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.
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.
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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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 we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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