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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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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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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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 Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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