Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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.
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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.
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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 greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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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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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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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