Principles are eternal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANOnly those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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