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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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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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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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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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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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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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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