When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANDestiny 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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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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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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 evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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