No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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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.
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If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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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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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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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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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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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 greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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