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 BRYANIf the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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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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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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If 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.
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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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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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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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 great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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