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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANMost of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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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There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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 you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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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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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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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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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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