William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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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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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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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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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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 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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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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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.