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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANMy place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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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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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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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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