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 BRYANEvolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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