Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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 I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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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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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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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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