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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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