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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANBehold 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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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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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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