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William Jennings Bryan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1860
Born: March 18
Died: 1925
Died: July 26
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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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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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Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?
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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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A belief in God is fundamental upon it rest the influences that control life.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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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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Evolution is not truth it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
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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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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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