Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANMy place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Principles are eternal.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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 parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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