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William Jennings Bryan Inspirational Quotes (90)

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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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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 great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.
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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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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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A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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