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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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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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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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 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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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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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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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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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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