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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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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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Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
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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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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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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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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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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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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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