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.
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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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