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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANSelfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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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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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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 large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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