The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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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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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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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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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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