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William Jennings Bryan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1860
Born: March 18
Died: 1925
Died: July 26
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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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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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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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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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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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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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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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