The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANNo greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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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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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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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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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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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.
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