The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThere 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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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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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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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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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.
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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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 the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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 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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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