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?
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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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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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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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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