My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAgnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Principles are eternal.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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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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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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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.
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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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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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