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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANWars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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 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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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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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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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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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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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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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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