My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANWars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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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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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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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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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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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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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 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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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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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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