Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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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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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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When 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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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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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