When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANNone 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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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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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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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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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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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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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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