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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.

William Jennings Bryan

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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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History Myself People Place
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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Civilization Himself Respect Right Teaching
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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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Desire Government Ourselves Rule Spiritual
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Fact Interpret Relate Right Understand
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Advance Common Interest Obstruction Oneself Selfish Truth
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 large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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Bank Large Opportunity Profit
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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Believe Essential Moral Practical Religion True
If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Believe Myself Swallow
Principles are eternal.
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Forever One Liner Principle
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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Lawyer Need Requirement
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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Animation Brief Change Man Pay Suffering Visit
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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Burn Country Farm Leaving Magic Spring Yourself
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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