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 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.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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