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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANPrinciples are eternal.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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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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