One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANEloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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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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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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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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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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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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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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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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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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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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