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The Old Testament gave us the law the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

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William Jennings Bryan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1860
Born: March 18
Died: 1925
Died: July 26
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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Illinois
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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 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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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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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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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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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As long as there are human rights to be defended as long as there are great interests to be guarded as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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 great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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