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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAn orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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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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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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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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 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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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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