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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.

William Jennings Bryan

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William Jennings Bryan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1860
Born: March 18
Died: 1925
Died: July 26
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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future
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The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.
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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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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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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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I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.
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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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