Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANPrinciples are eternal.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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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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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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If 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?
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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