Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANYou shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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 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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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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