If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Principles are eternal.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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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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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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