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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.
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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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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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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New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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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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