My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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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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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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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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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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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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