Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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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 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.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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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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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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If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Principles are eternal.
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