The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANTwo 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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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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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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Principles are eternal.
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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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