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William Jennings Bryan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1860
Born: March 18
Died: 1925
Died: July 26
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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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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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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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Principles are eternal.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible love makes class prejudice impossible love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised love converts enemies into friends.
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God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.
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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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