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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

William Jennings Bryan

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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Fire Oneself Speech Talk Thinking
The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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Final Greatness Politics Question Wrong
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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Active Burden Enjoyment Life
The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Earth Greatness Little Slow
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Attitude Evolution Mindset Natural Spiritual
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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Confidence Development Experience Record Success Yourself
This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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Consent Earth Nation People Question
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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Heart Lips Speech
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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Attention Discussion Drawn Greatness Settle
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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Forever Invisible Mystery Patriotism
Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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Blood Rich Time Trade War
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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Atheist Home Parents Pay Right Teacher
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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Body Change Count Death Man Spark Spirit
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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Blessing Enjoyment Government Man Ourselves Pay Share Willing
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Fact Interpret Relate Right Understand
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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Assumption Human Life Man Murder Responsibility Vote
The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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Essence Expression Goodness Patriot Sacrifice True Willing
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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Breathe Change Fear Human Life Live Moments Thinking
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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Law Old Rest Reveal
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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Better Destroy Evolution Save Suffering Trace
If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Evolution Religion Win
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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Argument Freedom Myself People Silver
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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Conversation Listening Oneself People Talk Thinking
Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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Combination Estate Investment Reality Rise Save
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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Evolution Guess Togetherness Truth
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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Afraid Day Minority Oneself Right Stand
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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Civilization Himself Respect Right Teaching

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