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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThat is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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.
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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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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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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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Principles are eternal.
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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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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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.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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