Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Behold 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.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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