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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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 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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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 Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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Principles are eternal.
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