The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANGreed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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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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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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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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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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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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