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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANSuccess is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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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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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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 we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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If 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.
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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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 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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